London

===National government===
[[File:10 Downing Street. MOD 45155532 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|190px|[[10 Downing Street]], official residence of the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]]]
London is the seat of the [[Government of the United Kingdom]]. Many government departments, as well as the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister's]] residence at [[10 Downing Street]], are based close to the [[Palace of Westminster]], particularly along [[Whitehall]].<ref name="london_036">{{Cite web |title=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/prime-ministers-office-10-downing-street |access-date=25 March 2021 |website=uk.gov}}</ref> There are 73 members of [[British House of Commons|Parliament]] (MPs) from London; {{as of|2019|December}}, 49 are from the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], 21 are [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]], and three are [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]].<ref>{{Cite news |year=2019 |title=Constituencies A-Z – Election 2019 |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies |url-status=dead|access-date=30 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216195058/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies |archive-date=16 December 2019}}</ref> The ministerial post of [[minister for London]] was created in 1994 and as of 2020 is held by [[Paul Scully]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minister for London |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-for-london |website=gov.uk |publisher=UK Government |access-date=30 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>