Boris Watch

In May this year, Director Of Communications External Affairs, Guto Harri, and Director Of Environmental Policy, Isabel Dedring, both accompanied Boris Johnson on his jaunt to the C40 Summit in Seoul. Expenses covering this period for both Harri and Dedring have now appeared on the GLA website and I’ve noticed that both of them have [...]

Boris’s astonishingly bad choice of lieutenants took a new twist today when all but one Assembly Member published their expenses on line.  The exception was the only one Boris picked for a role other than the statutory Deputy Mayor, Richard Barnes, which he has to.  It is, of course, tubby Barnet petrolhead and chair of [...]

Following the GLA grilling of Sir Simon Milton and Martin Clarke (the GLA finance chief, inherited from the previous regime) on Martin ‘Mayorwatch’ Hoscik’s Twitter feed:
Milton says Chief of  Staff is not his official role although the Mayor sometimes calls him it.
Milton says he signs off Mayoral decisions before the reach the Mayor and helps [...]

Usually, the adage goes, dodgy Labour politicians get done in by money and crap Tory ones by sex.  Under Boris’s brave new not-sure-what-it-is-yet politics, the Tories have started trying to combine money and sex at the same time, and predictably failing.  Ian Clement has gone, number three in the list of Deputy Mayors, leaving only [...]

Glad to see that Jeremy Smyles is still going:

(I, on the other hand, have been contemplating calling it a day while my cloak’s intact. Goodbye, if so.)