Championing London at home and abroad
"I will champion London at home and abroad."
Boris Johnson has tirelessly championed London throughout his Mayoralty. Examples of where this positive lobbying brought tangible benefits for the city include the record infrastructure investment that he has secured from the government for projects in London including Crossrail, broadband, smart ticketing, the Northern Line extension to Battersea and the Thames Tideway Tunnel (link). Boris has also been vocal in his support for a new airport in the Thames Estuary to help grow London’s businesses. Due in part to Boris’s lobbying efforts, the Government has announced a consultation into related proposals (link).
Boris has championed London’s causes persistently abroad in order to protect the businesses which make London such a great economic powerhouse. He has stood up to Brussels to emphasise the policies that would damage the City of London such as the Financial Transactions Tax and employment directives (link). Boris is proud that London recently secured investment offers of £10 billion at the World Economic Forum in Davos (link). He has also invested £2 million in the ‘Only in London’ tourism campaign which generated £100 million of income to London (link).