Now that Sadiq Khan’s generous £170,000 salary makes him the highest-paid politician in Britain, the TaxPayers’ Alliance have crunched the numbers on just how much it costs Londoners to foot the wage bill for City Hall’s top brass. Brace yourselves…
It takes 347 band D London council taxpayers to fund the mayor’s new salary alone. For his nine deputy mayors (yes, nine), it takes 2772 hardworking band D taxpayers to cough up the cash. They also accepted generous salary bumps earlier in the summer…
In fact, combining the salaries of the mayor, his nine deputies, and his six other top aides is equivalent to 232,282 daily capped tube fares for zones 1-3 – or roughly 193,437 ULEZ charges. Co-conspirators living in the capital: is it worth it?
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”