Low-income families are being forced out of central London as a result of soaring rents and ideological government benefit cuts, new Labour Party research showed this morning.

Analysis by Labour London Assembly Member Fiona Twycross AM has shown a 27 per cent drop in the number of private renters claiming housing benefit in central London since the introduction of the government’s cap on Local Housing Allowance was introduced in April 2011.

By contrast, the number of claimants in outer-London boroughs has increased by 9 per cent.