A key member of Sir Sadiq Khan’s new Oxford Street quango dropped a bombshell within minutes of the start of its first meeting by declaring: “I wish we weren’t here.”
Adam Hug, the Labour leader of Westminster council, made clear to fellow board members of the Oxford Street development corporation that Sir Sadiq’s decision to seize control of Oxford Street had derailed the council’s own plans to regenerate the nation’s most famous high street.
