‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents … It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview’

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims about the capital city’s apparent decline

‘Broken Britain. Lawless London’.

The way some politicians and political commentators denigrate our capital city and country makes you wonder why they choose to live here.

London, they’ll tell you, is some dark, dystopian backwater. A city where, whenever you step out onto the street, you will be the victim of a violent mugging – or worse.

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