This is due to 2018, when most of the English council seats being fought for next week were last contested, being a high water mark of Labour's recent performance.
It was reported in 2022 that Johnson was convinced of the following a briefing by the chief scientist of the in January 2020, and subsequently made the issue a priority for his government.
More hardline measures, such as criminalising people who lock themselves to gates, collapsed in a victory for the Lords.