Changing London

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David Robinson. Changing London

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This is a book about politics but it is also, for me, a book about London, the greatest city in the world and the most beautiful. It’s a city in which to walk and discover the hidden backstreets, the squares and small parks.

Start around Brick Lane and walk westwards into the global financial powerhouse of the City of London. Walk to Aldgate and down to Cornhill, past Bank and Mansion House and down to Blackfriars and the Embankment to see the Thames in full flow. Walk on past Temple and Somerset House towards the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey through Parliament Square to St James’s Park. Turn and look back and see the Treasury and the Foreign Office divided by the ­statue of Clive of India. The Admiralty is to the left. This was once the epicentre of British imperial power.

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These principles – fairness and equity, voice and agency – have underpinned our conversations and are the load-bearing poles of a big and popular tent. Within this framework we imagine a mayor with three distinct approaches to their work.

First, they would inquire and listen, inspire and explain, convene and provoke, engage and collaborate.

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