Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one | Zoe Williams
London’s Oxford street during the queen’s platinum jubilee in 2022. Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Faceless’ and ‘out of touch’? Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesOpinionLondonDoes Andy Burnham really hate London?
- ▪London’s Oxford street during the queen’s platinum jubilee in 2022.
- ▪Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Faceless’ and ‘out of touch’?
- ▪Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesOpinionLondonDoes Andy Burnham really hate London?
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‘Faceless’ and ‘out of touch’? London’s Oxford street during the queen’s platinum jubilee in 2022. Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Faceless’ and ‘out of touch’? London’s Oxford street during the queen’s platinum jubilee in 2022. Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty ImagesOpinionLondonDoes Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only oneZoe WilliamsBoth left and right have it in for Britain’s capital. But is London a stabby wasteland, a den of faceless bureaucrats, or just a mess of overprivileged wokerati?Mon 3 Aug 2026 10.17 EDTLast modified on Mon 3 Aug 2026 10.18 EDTShare‘I’ve seen no evidence of Andy being anti-London,” the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, told the Evening Standard last week, which is quaint and adorable: evidence is so 2009.
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