On London Extra: Our country needs us

London's growth plan can be good for the whole nation. Plus crime twerp rebuked, Musk mocked, top cop to retire and much more

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The long-gestating London Growth Plan, launched with a fanfare at Imperial College yesterday, is a 100-page burst of welcome positivity against a darkening backdrop of aggressive nationalists colluding abroad and parasitic populists plotting at home.

It's quite a candid document, too, stating plainly that Brexit has contributed to our problems, squeezing in a veiled reference to the menace of Donald Trump and insisting that "green growth" and the pursuit of net zero should be central to economic growth - all views the Labour national government, rightly or wrongly, is cautious about expressing.