READ MORE: Is the Welsh Government really at war with motorists? READ MORE: The eight commonly used items banned in Wales from today And, in fact, the speed limit on the road just outside here was changed from 40mph to 30 mph after a long campaign by people because there have been several fatalities on the road.' Twenty-five of them were serious and three of them were fatal. If you just look at this constituency, in the last 10 years, there have been 1,672 casualties in road traffic accidents. In Rishi Sunak's constituency, his local Conservative council implementing 20mph speed limits in their area.
Large chunks of London, for instance, have 20mph. To start with he defended the policy saying: 'Lots of places in England already have 20mph, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, large parts of Belfast, for instance, and Edinburgh. The policy has proven to be unpopular with a large proportion of the Welsh public and the Labour MP for the Rhondda, Chris Bryant, was asked about it on the BBC's Question Time programme. A significant number of major 30mph roads were exempted. In September, the Welsh Government introduced the default 20mph limit which changed many roads that had 30mph speed limits down to 20mph limits. A senior Labour MP has said that parts of the 20mph limit introduced by the Welsh Government are 'frankly bonkers'.
