Boris Watch

Of course, Boris still tries to avoid being interviewed as much as possible, and he hasn’t been grilled on the London segment of the Politics Show for some time, but this week’s story about the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has gone national so Boris today put in an appearance on the national Politics Show instead.
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We know from Boris’s reticence about explaining quite with whom he ‘consulted widely’ that, er, he didn’t consult widely at all about forcing out Sir Ian Blair.
But now it’s emerged that Boris’s other line of defence – that it was Ian Blair’s decision alone to resign, and he hadn’t been expecting it at all – [...]

The controversy over Boris’s breach of due process yesterday has rightly rumbled on today.
First, this morning’s Guardian front page gave some extra insight, including the extraordinary revelation that Boris
insisted no permanent successor needed to be appointed until the Conservatives took over in Downing Street

So for the sake of getting a politically correct (I intend to [...]

After an afternoon of speculation, Sir Ian Blair has just read a statement of resignation from his job as Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
He has made it clear in no uncertain terms that he is resigning because of Boris.
Boris took over as chair of the Metropolitan Police Association yesterday, when the Mayor was first legally entitled to [...]