More than four million women and girls live in London. They represent over half (51 per cent) of the capital’s population. But under Mayor Sadiq Khan they have been reduced to an afterthought.
The nation’s capital has become a hostile environment where the incidence of rape has soared, female commuters are routinely harassed, working women routinely underpaid, and mothers foot exorbitant childcare bills that force many to skip meals or fall behind on bills. The list of charges against the sitting Mayor is long: it is up to the women of London to vote him out next week. ‘Anyone but Khan’ should be on every woman’s lips.
The financial struggles of London’s women risk affecting the next generation of Londoners
London life is even more brutal for disadvantaged and vulnerable women: single mothers with dependent children are more likely to be in overcrowded accommodation; domestic abuse survivors cannot rely on refuges to be women-only safe havens; and rape victims cannot be sure that the police officer to whom they have reported their ordeal is not under investigation for a domestic abuse or sexual violence himself.
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