Young people should abandon London and leave it to the super-rich, Victoria Coren Mitchell suggests

The writer and broadcaster had a novel solution to London's housing crisis

Victoria Coren Mitchell (BBC)

Young people should abandon London and leave the “super wealthy” without workers to provide basic services, Victoria Coren Mitchell has suggested.

The writer and broadcaster half-jokingly suggested that the move would be a solution to London’s cost of living crisis.

“I think what has to happen is all of the young people and all of the workforce just have to leave London. They’ve just got to make themselves work somewhere else. The government has to find something to offer people outside London to regenerate other parts of the country,” she told BBC’s Question Time programme on Thursday.

Should London's workforce leave the capital to scupper the lives of the "super-wealthy"? That's what broadcaster Victoria Coren Mitchell's suggesting http://bbc.in/1RBcY0p

Posted by BBC News on Friday, 6 November 2015

“They’ll leave and all super-wealthy people with their iceberg houses will be left with no nurses and no police and no firemen and no one to clean the houses and no one to deliver the mail to their houses and London will settle again.”

She also criticised the negligible number of council homes being built in London.

Ms Coren Mitchell was appearing alongside Labour MP Chuka Umunna, Conservative minister Justine Greening, Green parliamentarian Jenny Jones and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens.