Boris Watch

No time for analysis, but Boris has now seemingly abandoned the Deputy Mayor idea and gone back to the old Chief of Staff role, with (obviously ) Sir Simon Milton in it.
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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 [...]

The London Assembly Elections Review committee have launched an invistigation into the reports of the Open Rights Group, a technological organisation who claim that there is ‘insufficient evidence’ to justify the stated electoral results. They’d like to hear from you.
“The Committee would like written views and information from anyone [...]