Sadiq Khan: PM rejected my demand to shut down all construction sites

By Tom Lowe2020-03-24T14:44:00

London mayor says Boris Johnson overruled him and still wants “business as usual”

The mayor of London has claimed that the prime minister overruled him after he called for the closure of construction sites in the capital.

Sadiq Khan said that, during a meeting of the government’s emergency COBRA committee, he argued that construction workers should not be going to work unless it was for safety reasons.

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