Boris Watch

The Standard has couple of pieces worth reading – in different ways – today.
“Yes, I’m Boris’s chief enforcer – the supertanker is now turning” is an interview with Sir Simon Milton, who more or less confirms the previously unattributed stories that he’s in charge at City Hall now Parker’s had the boot. The Tory Troll [...]

Speaking on tonight’s Any Questions?, on which Ken Livingstone was also a guest, Sir Simon Milton, Boris’s knife-wielding Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, said without the slightest equivocation that Boris has said he will continue with half-price bus fares for Londoners on income support.
Unfortunately no-one challenged this statement, but given that Income Support claimants [...]