伦敦人口1939年有860万人,到1983年滑落到680万人,原因在于政府将贫民窟的居民迁到郊区的人口分散政策奏效。然而,在撒切尔夫人首相任内,她不顾市议会反对,让 The population of London was 8.6 million in 1939 and dropped to 6.8 million in 1983 due to the government’s democratization policy of relocating slum dwellers to the suburbs. However, within the Prime Minister Thatcher’s term, she ignored the council’s opposition