Why shouldn’t Michael Bloomberg be mayor of London? | Simon Jenkins

The former mayor of New York is rumoured to be thinking of running London. After all, they are really one city, separated only by an airport runway

The rumour that the former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg is thinking of running as mayor of London confirms what the rest of Britain has long known. The United Kingdom is continuing to dissolve. New York and London are really one city, separated only by an airport runway. But both are thousands of miles distant from their hinterlands. That is...