‘I’ve lived here 50 years - I’ve never seen London like this’: Sadiq Khan accused of ‘destroying’ capital as GB News guest launches furious rant

The capital’s housing crisis worsened in the last year with the Office for National Statistics [ONS] saying the number of people renting in the city rose by 11 per cent.

A GB News guest told Patrick: “We’re looking at 88,000 homes at almost £100,000 a home.

“That’s almost £9 billion. Where’s that money coming from? That’s one point, and then there’s infrastructure.

“There is none. No schooling, no medical centres, no nothing. Who’s funding all of this? The worst is the NHS. What are we doing to it?

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“We’re absolutely crippling it by doing whatever we’re doing. Labour has also got to look at itself seriously. Also, think about crime.

“88,000 homes for families, four people in a home, that’s 360,000 people. How many of them are going to be criminals in London?

“Sadiq Khan has destroyed it. 40-50 years I have lived here and I have never seen London like this.”

Labour MP Barry Gardiner sought to defend Khan’s record in the capital, saying: “If you look at the number of new NHS appointments, getting that seven million on the waiting list they left for us down, getting people back into work because they’re no longer waiting for their operations, that’s been phenomenal.

“When Labour left office in 2010, the health service in the UK had the highest satisfaction rating it had ever had. The Tories destroyed it. We’re rebuilding it now.

“On housing, the 88,000 is an extraordinary target to have to build. Anyone who lives in London now knows there is a homelessness crisis and over the last ten years there has been a maximum of 40,000 homes built a year, yet they need 88,000 to actually meet the demand.

“I absolutely agree that this should not be at the expense of the green built and biodiversity. The economy sits within the environment and without the environment, you don’t have the economy.”

City Hall will "actively explore" releasing parts of the green belt to help end the capital's housing crisis.

The mayor believes the current situation regarding London's green belt is "wrong, out of date and simply unsustainable."

This bold proposal is one of the most significant changes to London housing policy in recent years.

Khan acknowledges that building on brownfield sites alone "will not be enough to meet our needs."

The London metropolitan green belt, established by the Green Belt Act of 1938 and expanded in the 1950s, was originally designed to prevent urban sprawl.

However, these boundaries have constrained the capital's growth amid a rising population.

This has contributed to pushing housing prices to unaffordable levels for many Londoners.

In a bid to address concerns, Khan has promised to "attach the right conditions" to any release of green belt land.

He vows to "maximise the level of affordable housing" while also increasing "biodiversity and the amount of land that is genuinely affordable".