London garden bridge project collapses in acrimony after £37m spent

Boris Johnson claims successor Sadiq Khan ‘killed’ project after mayor says public should be ‘very angry’ over wasted funds

It was intended to be a “floating paradise” for London but instead Joanna Lumley’s vision of a Thames garden bridge has collapsed amid acrimony, with the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, and his predecessor Boris Johnson arguing over how £37m of public money had been spent on a project without a brick being laid.

The actor had conceived of the bridge as a memorial to Princess Diana, but the trust behind the £200m project for a tree-lined bridge between Temple on the north side of the Thames and the South Bank said it had to abandon the scheme because it did not have support of the mayor whose financial support had become necessary for its survival.

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