KHAN’S BUDGET RIPPED APART BY CITY HALL CONSERVATIVES
His priorities are all wrong - and we’ve got to fix it.
Next week, Sir Sadiq Khan’s final budget for London 2025/26 comes before the Greater London Authority. We’ll be honest with you: it’s rubbish. His priorities are just simply in the wrong places as the problems in London continue to mount, and he’s frittering away taxpayer cash with little benefit to Londoners.
LONDONERS DESERVE BETTER
Londoners deserve a Mayor who puts their priorities first, rather than bureaucratic empire-building from City Hall. 800 roles at the Metropolitan Police are facing the chop as theft and burglaries skyrocket, putting Londoners and businesses at risk. We promised you we were going to fight for our police, and next Tuesday we outline our alternative budget for London. Labour can’t keep making the wrong choices - and we’re going to fight them to stop it.
ALESSANDRO GEORGIOU AM CLASHES WITH KHAN
“I should have bought you a calculator for Christmas.” Khan came before the Budget Committee this week, deigning to give the Assembly just one hour of his time to answer questions about his awful budget. Alessandro Georgiou AM was having none of it - watch his feisty exchanges with Khan over the nonsense figures put to us:
SUSAN HALL AM HIGHLIGHTS HOW CUTS HURT LONDONERS
Visible policing helps restore confidence in the Met Police in the eyes of Londoners, says Susan Hall AM. So why can’t the Mayor provide the necessary funding to stop police personnel cuts? Over 800 people at the Met are facing the chop, taking visible officers off our streets. Watch Susan ask the Mayor:
HOW WAS KHAN GOING TO FUND FREE SCHOOL MEALS?
The Mayor’s manifesto promise of free school meals was not a cheap one, which has led to a few raised eyebrows about how he intended to pay for it. In December the Mayor told us he didn’t expect any additional business rate funds to be collected, but he mysteriously found £91m more during the Christmas period to fund free school meals. So Neil Garratt AM begged the question - if those rates indeed hadn’t appeared, how else was he going to pay for his manifesto promise? Watch the exchange:
PODCAST SPECIAL: CHRIS PHILP MP & DR LAWRENCE NEWPORT TALK PHONE THEFT
You may not have been able to join us at our event earlier this month, Tackling London’s Theft Epidemic, but now you can listen along! We’ve released the whole event as a special episode of our podcast, Inside City Hall, which you can listen to now:
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