Boris Watch

Hélène Mulholland at guardian.co.uk reports that the obvious contradiction between Boris’s policies encouraging more pollution by axing the third phase of the Low Emission Zone (not to mention the removal of the Congestion Charge Western Extension Zone) and the legal obligation for the UK to cut pollution in London or face huge fines from the [...]

John Biggs, deputy leader of the London Assembly’s Labour group, has alleged that last week’s single-issue People’s Question Time on Heathrow expansion was nothing more than “a Tory party propaganda event“.  The Lib Dem’s transport spokesperson, Caroline Pidgeon, also supports these allegations and has written an as-yet unpublished letter to the Evening Standard.
Unusually for a [...]

I’ve just caught up with this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, whose eponymous host was elsewhere. In his absence, Fiona Bruce tackled our typically underbriefed Mayor on a range of issues, including the only significant article about him in today’s newspapers, which he said he hadn’t even seen.
First, they covered the issue of Heathrow expansion. I [...]

Another highlight from Boris’s Telegraph column:
“When we look at our options, and you think of the lasting benefits of infrastructure investment, you can see that even in little old Britain we have some stunning opportunities, of a scale not seen for a generation.
“There is Crossrail, 75 miles of track finally providing a link between Heathrow [...]