How Can Labour Tackle Poverty in London?

Abstract This article examines the challenges that London faces in garnering attention for its problems associated with inequality from the Labour government. A combination of a shortage of resources and the growing threat of Reform UK makes focusing specifically on tackling poverty in London a difficult political challenge for Labour. Initial attempts at a post‐levelling up policy only appear to confirm that London is likely to be left to fend for itself. In the face of a government preoccupied, as its predecessor was, with the impact of inequality on places outside the capital, the best hope for London is to press for further devolution, which can give it at least the potential to focus on those in the capital whom the central government cannot, or will not, help.