It is not just Whitehall where the anger is palpable, with residents in the east London town of Romford gathering en masse this afternoon to protest against the Ulez expansion.
Crowds slowly swelled to support protesters carrying signs taking aim at the London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Lorraine Marling, a local resident and nurse, was told her 55-reg Volkswagen car did not meet the new requirements, meaning she now has to pay £15 a day simply to travel to work.
“I’m doing a night shift tonight at 7:30,” the 50-year-old, who works at Southend Hospital in Essex, explained.
“I finish tomorrow at 7:30am. I’m going to have to pay tonight and tomorrow to drive to and from work.
“It’s £15 per day with VAT. It’s going to cost me £390 per calendar month just to get to work.
“How can I afford that? That’s a quarter of my wages just to go to work.”
As more protesters arrived outside the Golden Lion pub on Romford’s high street, carrying signs reading “Take the cameras down”, Victor Vella said the recent Ulez expansion had bled more than £22,000 from his scrap metal business.
The 55-year-old, who runs Rush Green Recycling and Reclamation, called on the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “get off the fence and make a decision” and said “it’s so unclear” whether you are in or out of the Ulez zone.