London Mayor Sadiq Khan has attacked the Government’s levelling up agenda as an ‘unmitigated disaster’ that impoverishes the capital’s boroughs.
Giving evidence to a select committee, Mayor Khan said that while nobody opposed the idea of levelling up, London’s Labour-dominated boroughs were suffering from US-style ‘pork barrel politics’.
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