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researchers visited sixty likely towns. The factors involved in judging
included house prices, hospital waiting lists, the crime rate, council tax
rates, activities and attractions, weather patterns and ease of transport. It
has also been described by Lonely Planet's Great Britain guide as
"everything you could want" in a seaside resort. On 22 July 2008 the
newly elected Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, caused controversy in an article
in The Daily Telegraph, where
he declared "Stuff Skegness, my trunks and I are off to the sun", in
his desire to have a foreign holiday that year