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London Mayor sadiq Khan
Outrage over Khan’s Policy Driving Curry Houses Out of Central London Curry Life exCLusive
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t Curry Life we take pride in our political neutrality, after all we only have one obligation and goal – to support and inform our colleagues in the UK Curry Industry who make up our readership and wider hospitality sector. This often puts us in a position where we need to assess the actions of elected officials when such actions have an impact on those who we represents such as Curry Houses and other cuisine sector with our exclusive trade magazines. We offer our analysis based on the evidence available with absolute impartiality, offering no allegiance to any political party or elected individual. We are prepared to criticise when we feel it’s appropriate as well as offering praise where it’s due. For example, we criticised the government’s early handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent
article – we believe they were too slow to respond and since Brexit have an engrained aversion to expert advice. We were also critical of the government’s treatment of the curry industry during this crisis; this is evident from our recent interview with Small Business Minister Mr Paul Scully MP. However, we also welcomed a large portion of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s summer statement. We are ardent supporters of Eat Out to Help Out, the cut in VAT, changes to licensing laws and various other measures the Government has recently put into place. We make the above point to stress our neutrality because it has become necessary for us to address the actions of another elected official, this time one representing the Labour Party as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Our magazine has reached out to Mr Khan on multiple
