Half of Londoners think Sadiq Khan has not done enough to improve London s affordability
The new polling comes after the mayor implemented a 9.5 per cent council tax rise that will hit Londoners from next month. (Getty Images)
New polling shows more than half of Londoners think Sadiq Khan has not done enough to make London more affordable as his near 10 per cent council tax rise begins to take effect across the capital.
The new polling from YouGov shows that 56 per cent of Londoners think the mayor has not made London more affordable, while 49 per cent of Londoners said the Mayor has not done enough to keep London safe.
In April 2016 Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan sat beside each other in a debate at the Union Chapel in Islington. They were both on stools – Labour s Khan’s feet swung several inches above the ground – and the difference between them was striking. Khan was scrappy and cocksure.
Goldsmith answered questions with all the pugnacious dynamism of an aristocrat showing tourists around his estate. “I was very taken by a relaxed, laid-back public schoolboy and a much smaller, energised Sadiq,” said an audience member, who at the time was working in City Hall alongside Boris Johnson. “Zac lounged like a head of house at Eton. Sadiq was a coiled spring of energy, of pent-up, furious desire.”
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British scientists have found a version of the coronavirus with a cluster of genetic changes that make it more transmissible and perhaps more dangerous.
The new variant of the coronavirus attacking Britain is not believed to be more lethal or more resistant to vaccines, but officials say it is up to 70% more transmissible. The prospect of uncontrolled contagion forced Johnson to inform the country that he was, in essence, canceling Christmas for many in England, ordering millions to forgo holiday travel and gatherings.
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The government had previously said up to three households would be permitted to mingle indoors, exclusively, over a five-day period. But Saturday, Johnson glumly declared that people in London and the rest of England’s southeast must not mix at all with other households, suddenly upending plans that had been weeks in the making. Elsewhere in Britain, a maximum of two households can meet on Christmas Day only.
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