The relationship between London and the rest of the UK has never been entirely easy. The capital has had a long-running habit of acquiring derisory nicknames, from the “Great Wen” of the 1820s to the “Dark Star” of the 2010s. London voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, alongside Scotland and Northern Ireland, and was the only English region to do so. In what appears to be an increasingly Disunited Kingdom, how is the relationship between the capital and the nation state changing?
A new YouGov poll for Centre for London and the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London has looked at how the capital is perceived – by the rest of the UK and by Londoners themselves.
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