Revealed: the extent of Sadiq Khan’s splurge of taxpayers’ cash

Londoners don’t agree on much, but on one subject many of the capital’s residents are united: Amy Lamé, the mayor’s ‘night czar’, is a colossal waste of money. Whether you’re on the left or right, a cyclist or motorist, religious or not, it’s hard to defend her £120,000-a-year salary for ‘ensuring London thrives as a 24 hour city’. But Lamé isn’t the only beneficiary of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s largesse: more than 1,100 staff working for various public sector organisations in the capital, including City Hall, Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police, were paid more than £100,000 last year.

Under Khan’s watch, sky-high public sector salaries in London are spiralling out of control. And the growth really is rapid. The last time we compiled these figures, in 2020, there were 655 London officials who received over £100,000. This now pales in comparison to today’s numbers, which reveal a 75 per cent increase in just four years.