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?
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.