Starmer’s favourite pub struggles under Khan’s comrades

How much longer can Sir Keir Starmer’s local survive under the ever-blundering regime of Sadiq Khan’s City Hall? As every Westminster obsessive knows, Starmer’s favourite pub is The Pineapple in Kentish Town – a site ‘woven into the fabric of the community since it was built in 1868.’ Yet the battle-class boozer is struggling to survive: all thanks to the incompetence of Transport for London, responsibility for which sits with the capital’s Mayor.

Kentish Town station has been shut since June to fix two escalators and carry out ‘wider work’ on the station. But sadly, the effect on local business has proved to be catastrophic. The Lady Hamilton pub, located just a two-minute walk from the station, closed down permanently in August, with owner Paul Davies telling the Camden New Journal that:

There was no real warning and it has just wiped out the trade – and it has hit The Pineapple too. The High Street has been killed: we are not the only ones.