According to a recent YouGov survey, just under 20 per cent of Brits think London is in a bad state and worse than the rest of the country. Only 14 per cent of actual Londoners share that view, while 22 per cent of voters in the North think it’s definitely the case. Just under 20 per cent of people think London’s in a bad way but that it’s no worse than the rest of the country.

More than 40 per cent of people in Scotland and Wales express no view on the matter. Pollsters don’t take account of respondents who think “don’t know, don’t care” but that’s the sense one gets from our Celtic cousins.

As for Londoners themselves, we’ve conducted our own poll of the capital’s residents alongside our regular Freshwater Strategy monthly survey of UK voters. The results are interesting.

While nationally, 56 per........

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