The Mayor must represent and promote London both at home and abroad. He must speak up for Londoners; devise strategies to tackle Londonwide issues, including transport, economic regeneration, environmental concerns (noise, waste, etc.) planning and culture.
He sets the budget for the Greater London Authority and its four new functional bodies: Transport for London, the London Development Agency, the Metropolitan Police Authority and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
Learn more about the powers and responsibilities of the Mayor of London.
Boris Johnson was born in 1964 in New York and moved to London aged five when he went to Primary School in Camden. He later won a scholarship to Eton and Oxford and after graduating he moved back to the Capital.
Discover more about Boris Johnson, the current Mayor of London.
Read a profile of Ken Livingstone, the first Mayor of London.
