Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson is backing plans to change the law to remove the legal power of the Mayor of London to guarantee the Freedom Pass even if the boroughs try to cut it.

London Councils, coordinating body of London boroughs currently led by the Conservative Party, has announced that it has reached agreement with Mayor Boris Johnson that he will support changes to the Freedom Pass “reserve scheme” by abolishing the Mayor of London’s “guarantee” of the Freedom Pass. The mayor’s office confirms that the agreement has been reached.  

Tory Transport for London board member, Daniel Moylan, has called the Freedom Pass a ‘stealth tax on Londoners’ and led a campaign to remove the mayor’s guarantee which was opposed by then-mayor Ken Livingstone and defeated in Parliament.