Boris’s former deputy pleads guilty

Ian Clement, one of Boris Johnson’s ‘deputy mayors’, pleaded guilty today of offences under the Fraud Act.

Ian Clement charged with fraud

Boris Johnson’s decision to ignore advice from senior colleagues and political opponents alike by handing out the “bauble” job title of ‘deputy mayor’ to his advisors further tarnished the Greater London Authority today after former aide Ian Clement was charged with fraud.

Boris and that incomplete u-turn

What to make of yesterday’s story that Boris Johnson is re-organising his team of appointed advisors to ensure the wider public know they’re not actually running anything?

Johnson reorganises office and clarifies advisor posts

Boris Johnson is to reshape his office arrangements after the departure of Ian Clement revealed the absence of a formal Chief of Staff, despite a widespread understanding at City Hall that advisor Sir Simon Milton held this responsibility.

Amid the anger, sanity finally breaks out over those ‘deputy mayors’

Skulking about in the corridors after today’s BMAC meeting, it was clear that Boris Johnson’s City Hall is a very angry place in the wake of Ian Clement’s misuse of his corporate credit card.

City Hall call in police over Clement expenses

City Hall officials have held initial discussions with the Police over Ian Clement’s expense claims, Members of the London Assembly Business Management and Administration Committee were told this morning.

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