The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
The financial district in the City of London, traditionally a Conservative stronghold where professionals are now increasingly turning to Labour.The financial district in the City of London, traditionally a Conservative stronghold where professionals are now increasingly turning to Labour.The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’are right.
Here are the grandest old-world clubs: the Savile, White’s, the Garrick and even that Tory domain the Carlton, plus the celebs of Soho House, 5 Hertford Street and Annabel’s. Along with Claridge’s, the Savoy and Fortnum and Mason, there’s Oxford Street, galleries from the National to Tate Britain and the Duke of Wellington’s Apsley House. Imagine a Labour MP representing all this for the first time.
He talks of Britain getting the worst of all worlds: it’s not entrepreneurial like the low-taxed US, “but I’m horrified by the poverty you see there”, but it doesn’t have the better public services you get in higher-taxed Europe. His group, in theSure enough, neither Tory warnings of Labour tax bombshells nor lavish cuts to national insurance have shifted the polls.
Rachel Blake, their probable new MP, is not naturally a denizen of millionaire zones nor of high finance but has been a housing campaigner for most of her life, has worked on planning with Gordon Brown andfor the last decade. We meet in the Barbican. Time was when this was Torydom, but no more, despite three-bed flats costing about £2m. Sarah, in a four-bed flat in a Barbican tower with her children and data scientist husband, says they will be voting Labour for the first time.
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