Popping into City Hall for last week’s London Assembly annual meeting I was struck at how cheerful the Labour group looked despite their candidate having lost the Mayoral election. After the same result in 2008 they looked angry, shell-shocked and a little lost at being in opposition for the first time. Even between 2000-2003 when […]
Martin Hoscik
Is the Deputy Mayor for Policing a politically restricted job?
A lot of online noise is being generated by the Standard’s report that Stephen Greenhalgh is to be the new Deputy Mayor for Policing. As Greenhalgh is a councillor it’s claimed that his appointment breaches the so-called Widdicombe rules on politically restricted posts. I don’t think that’s the case – though I’m open to being […]
Brian Paddick delivers LibDems worst ever City Hall result
Last September, long after the other main City Hall parties had picked theirs, London’s Liberal Democrats finally selected a candidate for Mayor. After several rounds of voting former Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick beat Mike Tuffrey by just 91 votes. At the time people I spoke to claimed they’d voted for Paddick because […]
Go out and vote or spare us the complaints!
If you’re one of London’s 5.8m registered voters then today is all about YOU. Today is YOUR chance to decide who is Mayor of London and who holds him to account for the next four years. Over the past weeks we’ve published hundreds of news articles detailing polices and thousands of words of advice on […]
The Guardian animates London’s Mayoral election
Big applause to The Guardian’s Paul Owen for the video below which nicely sums up this year’s underwhelming and policy-lite Mayor of London elections. Every London commentator will be wishing they’d thought of this first:
