The City of London Corporation

There's a square mile inside London where companies vote in elections, the King must ask permission to enter, and laws older than Parliament still apply. It's called the City of London Corporation — and most Britons have no idea it exists.In this investigation, Josh from Green & Pleasant uncovers the 958-year-old institution hiding in plain sight at the heart of the United Kingdom. Granted its "ancient liberties" by William the Conqueror in 1067 and specifically protected by Magna Carta in 1215, the City of London Corporation is a government inside Britain that predates Parliament itself — with its own Lord Mayor, its own police force, and an electoral system where businesses cast more votes than residents. We trace how the Square Mile financed empire, built the modern network of tax havens, and installed a permanent official — the Remembrancer — inside the House of Commons to guard its interests. And we ask the question every government of the last 40 years has quietly answered: who really runs Britain? This is the fourth film in our Hidden Governments of Britain series, following our investigations into the Fabian Society and Chatham House. CANAL GREEN AND PLEASANT https://youtu.be/_ataJTdvvtY?si=8D5mhFr8kt-Kawc9