In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.
Once there was NyLon — a conflation of New York and London, the glamorous power couple of urban planning. A couple of decades ago, their intertwined finance- and media-driven economies were the mega-hubs of the Atlantic. But you don’t hear very much about that anymore. In fact, London’s economy has gone into a sad decline. And as New York prepares to elect a left-wing mayor, perhaps voters there should reflect on London’s lessons — because their city could easily be going the same way.
