In the Tory Party lexicon, “North London” has become an increasingly useful cultural shorthand. And, like its closest American analogue, the Upper West Side liberal, the stereotype of the North London lefty is not entirely without basis in reality.
that her remark was “a worrying allusion to the sort of antisemitism where Jews are hinted at in coded metaphors.” Patel may have had no intention of blowing a dog whistle; she, like other Tory maligners of North London, likely intended merely to disparage liberal-lefty élitism. But intentions aren’t the only things that matter: whether a criminal is convicted of murder or manslaughter, the victim is just as dead.
Sunak’s “North London” sneer may have landed with his intended audience—the rank and file of the Tory membership who are suspicious of any kind of city-dwellers. Such people include those who belong to the élite professions, like lawyering, but also those at the opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum: inner-city residents who may be more vulnerable to hardship, and in more need of support from the state.
Conservative Party members in the affluent Home Counties town of Tunbridge Wells that he had clawed back funds previously channeled to “deprived urban areas.” Even the most charitable interpretation of the remark—that Sunak wanted to fund deprivedareas instead—partakes of a Tory distrust of urban populations, who, not coincidentally, tend to vote Labour.
Having this week received the keys to 10 Downing Street—and to Chequers, the sixteenth-century manor house in Buckinghamshire that is put at the disposal of the Prime Minister and his or her family—Sunak himself has more places of residence than he knows what to do with. He has his own manor house already, in the countryside in his constituency of Richmond, Yorkshire, in the North of England.
Sunak’s weekday residence has hitherto been in Kensington, in West London—the quadrant of the capital city where the real money lives. Sunak’s London home is reportedly worth £6.6 million: an absolute fortune, but less than one per cent of the reported
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