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Unsurprisingly, they blame conservatives. But the city has been a stronghold of Labour for a very long time. BoJo’s tenure was after this happened. Mind Gell-M

• pmyteh 5y ago
  The authority of English local government is highly constrained, and very little of what makes London attractive to kleptocrats was put in place by city hall (either under Johnson or his Labour predecessor or successor). Most of the Russian money in politics is flowing through the Conservative party. They're currently in power, traditionally more wealth friendly, and rely on big-money individual and corporate donors to a greater degree than Labour (who have union funding and also many more members to pay subs). That said, the last Labour government (up to 2010) was also beguiled by rich people, and there are definitely a few Labour backbenchers who have been bought off.