London mayor, Ken Livingstone, has joined forces with London Councils to demand that the Government take action over population figures. Mr Livingstone and London Councils chairman, Merrick Cockell, have slammed population figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and demanded the Government change the way they are calculated. According to latest figures from the ONS, the capital's population is set to drop by 95,000 this year. ‘London is growing more rapidly than any other west European capital – testifying to its unequalled economic and business success,' said Mr Livingstone. New research carried out for Westminster City Council has revealed almost one million Poles could come to London in search of work over the next year. ‘Official statistics do not take account of people who say they are coming to the UK for less than 12 months and places such as Westminster attract huge numbers of these short-term migrants,' said Westminster's deputy leader, Cllr Colin Barrow. ‘Ministers need to get the ONS to abandon the discredited methods it currently employs for calculating the UK's population so councils like us are not continuously short-changed.'
