Boris Watch

Snippet from Dylan Jones’ ‘Cameron on Cameron’, reported by the Standard:
In Cameron on Cameron, GQ editor Dylan Jones reveals: “I’ve employed Boris Johnson for the last eight years as GQ’s motoring correspondent and even though he’s probably cost the company over £5,000 in parking tickets I wouldn’t have him any other way.”
Since GQ’s HQ is [...]

Here’s the best analysis of the CCHQ/London Tory spat that culminated in the ejection of Tim Parker.  Amazingly it’s from the Evening Standard.
So senior Central Office figures, Lord Marland, the Conservative party treasurer and Nicholas Boles were sent to form a “transition team” to shore up Johnson.
Francis Maude, then party chairman, was also closely involved. [...]

A spokesman has ‘clarified’ Boris’s ‘piffle’ remarks:
“”These are the qualities he is keen to encourage in teenagers across London, where a lack of purpose, discipline and self-esteem lead many to wasted lives and violence.
“David Cameron is right to highlight that serious and destructive social breakdown.
“Politicians who pretend there is not a problem are [...]

Boris sends out a missive to the GLA staff: (h/t to Tory Troll)
“As you may by now have observed, Tim Parker has relinquished his role as First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive of the GLA.

“I am hugely grateful to him for his help and support over the last couple of months, and he will continue [...]

What a busy day - the Prince of Darkness identifies a key management role surplus to requirements (his own), Boris drives a coach-and-four through Cameron’s social policy, then reverses over it for good measure and the Tube strike is called off.  Where to start?  John Band has a conspiracy theory about the tube strike:
BJ: Wot [...]