The Mayor of London was heckled and booed at a People’s Question Time event this evening.

Boris Johnson and members of the Greater London Assembly took questions from the public at the meeting held in the Dominion Centre in High Road, Wood Green.

There were many questions about affordable housing and living conditions in Haringey and Mr Johnson in particular was heckled loudly in his responses.

He said: “We absolutely need new housing. The biggest problem we face is young Londoners not being able to live here.

“This is the number one issue we face and we have put all sorts of schemes in place to help people get on to the housing ladder.”

Shouts of ‘only for the rich’ and ‘not affordable for us’ repeatedly came from the audience as he insisted building more homes is the answer to the housing crisis.

Community nurse Anne Tunbridge, 44, said: “I think Boris is massively out of touch with the way people are living in Haringey.

“He is full of statistics but the reality is that statistics don’t help a newborn baby living in house full of damp and developing asthma as a result.

“The Mayor and Government in general come across as uncaring and that has to change. Sometimes they forget that these are human beings and lives.”

The issue of people being forced out of the borough due to their economic situation was raised a number of times.

An audience member said: “All your fancy statistics hide the growing underclass of people in London, many of whom are of black or ethnic minority backgrounds, who are being squeezed out.

“They are seeing everything they rely on eroded because you think it more important to make the capital attractive to rich foreign investors.”

Transport, the environment and policing were also raised at the event, along with the possibility of Mr Johnson having two jobs as Uxbridge MP and Mayor of London after the general election.

Aidan Rose, 56, of Southview Road said: “He’s taking on another job alongside his role as mayor and one has to question whether the Mayor of London is the job parliament had intended it to be.

“He was unconvincing in his replies and seemed to have a tirade of statistics which bore no relation to the experiences of the people here on all the subjects raised.

“The fact that he’s going to be a part-time mayor means he won’t be around to cause as much damage I hope.”