Sadiq Khan slammed for spending DOUBLE on City Hall staff compared to Boris Johnson

The London mayor Sadiq Khan has come under fire for £30M of City Hall staff spending whilst a crime wave had dogged the city he is elected to represent. Sadiq Khan was taken to task by Susan Hall for spending a total of £65 million on City Hall staff. This is double the amount spent by his predecessor Boris Johnson. Sadiq Khan is coming up to the end of his first term as London mayor and will have to fight an election in May this year.

GLA Conservative Susan Hall told Khan it was his job to make sure the “Metropolitan Police can keep people safe”. She added “Staffing costs at City Hall are going up to £65 million, that is double what it was in Boris Johnson’s last year, double! Quite frankly people out there are far more interested in being kept safe so it is down to you to make sure that the Metropolitan Police can keep them safe. Looking at the figures they are not being kept safe. So, you should be looking at where you are spending your money because I would say to you people don’t want people in this building, they actually want police officers out there keeping them safe.”

The BBC claim to have a spokesperson for the mayor said the higher costs were due to “additional powers across a wide range of areas” which had been granted to Mr Khan. Employee numbers spiked from 897 full-time posts in 2016 to about 1,300, as proposed in the 2020-21 budget. The source stated that the additional powers included areas such as housing, skills and healthcare while the extra staff “in many cases… have been funded by money the mayor has secured from the government. The mayor makes no apologies whatsoever for putting the resources in place to ensure he can continue delivering real results in all of these priority areas,” the spokesperson said.

HELP SUPPORT UNN AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR BREXIT AND PRIDE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH OUR STUNNING COLLECTABLE BREXIT BADGES AND T-SHIRTS, CLICK HERE TO BROWSE NOW!