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Sadiq Khan: ‘Govt got some things really wrong on travel’

London
Will Payne
29 March 2022

London mayor Sadiq Khan has criticised the government’s response on international travel during the pandemic.

Sadiq Khan addressed delegates at the conference in London on Tuesday (29 March)

Speaking to TTG at London & Partners’ annual Tourism Means Business conference on Tuesday (29 March), Khan said: "I think they got some things right, and they got some things really wrong."

Khan said the importance of London’s airports had been overlooked, and stressed more needed to be done to help the UK’s aviation sector achieve its ambitious carbon reduction targets.

"I’m not interested in looking backwards to be honest," he said. "Rather than looking backwards at things they got wrong, with the support they didn’t give, it’s more, ‘can we persuade the government to support us now’."