Londoners have long suspected it and tourists heading this way will found out soon enough – but our capital is the most expensive city in Europe and the third most costly in the world.
Only Tokyo and Osaka are ahead of London in the world rankings but nothing can top it on the continent, according to an annual study of 144 cities by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
The research emerged as the UK tourism industry condemned plans to hike the cost of a UK visa, further increasing the cost of visiting Britain.
Mercer, which looked at transport, entertainment and food along with housing and clothing, found Glasgow 40th most expensive and Birmingham 47th.
Moscow was fourth, Seoul fifth while New York remained the costliest in the US and Sydney the most expensive in Australasia.
Report by Steve Jones
