Ken Livingstone comments on new crisis in Boris Johnson regime

Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:14

Commenting on the resignation of Boris Johnson's Deputy Mayor, Ian Clement, Ken Livingstone said:

"Ian Clement is the third of Boris Johnson's Deputy Mayors to be forced to quit, following Ray Lewis and Tim Parker, in only a little more than a year in office. Equally forced out have been Boris Johnson's deputy chief of staff James McGrath and his top Olympics advisor David Ross. This is by any reckoning a record of extraordinary managerial incompetence at the top of London government.

"It is a total contrast to my administration - which saw in eight years only a single resignation.

"Boris Johnson has brought in a regime beset by the serial loss of top leaders who have been forced to resign due to misconduct or driven from office by the incompetence of the new Mayor's Office."
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