London must stop sucking up cash from the rest of Britain | Simon Jenkins

It’s obscene that the capital gets whatever it wants – more bridges, concert halls, railways – while the regions are starved of funding

Britain’s capital city is becoming a spoiled brat. It is stupendously rich. It sucks population out of the rest of the country and then whinges when this drives up house prices. Now at Christmas, it demands the kind of baubles you would expect of an Arab princeling or a banana republic.

London this month stamped its foot and got the government to give...