These are the people who know that, however much talk there is about increasing the London allowance for local government workers and teachers, it will get nowhere near resolving the basic Crisis of the Capital City, which arises from the fact that it is too expensive for a whole range of people to live in.

on higher income earners would cost the Exchequer £1·7 billion, a sum that would go far towards supplying the underspend of the National Health Service and would more than fund the package of proposals made by theAssociation of London Authorities to meet the Crisis in This Capital City?