Boris loses another appointment under cloud of sleaze The deputy chair of London’s fire authority (LFEPA) yesterday become the fifth Boris Johnson appointment to leave City Hall in shame. Bertha Jospeh was forced to quit after spending almost £1,000 of cash donations for children’s charities on ball gowns for herself. She was suspended from Brent council for

Boris Johnson is threatening to kill some children and worsen the educational outcomes of many more. The reason for this is straightforward. He intends to remove the western extension zone of the congestion charge, and delay phase three of the low emission zone, which would charge polluting vans more for entering London.

The Evening Standard yesterday reported that: “Boris Johnson’s administration was today at the centre of new sleaze allegations after a top fire authority chief spent £900 in donations on two ball gowns while serving as Mayor of Brent.” Over many weeks Boris Johnson has repeatedly failed to act over Bertha Joseph – who he has

Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson's Olympic ticket giveaway. London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby. The sheer idiocy of this speaks volumes of the rot at the heart of British society and its decadent political...

Mayor's Fund will 'draw riches from wealth-creators to give life-changing support to the poorest Londoners' says Johnson Boris Johnson today launched the Mayor's Fund for London, a charity independent of City Hall designed to help the 600,000 children living in poverty in the capital through "evidence based" schemes. The fund, chaired by Sir Trevor Chinn, a high-profile busines...

They just can't stop themselves...can they? Another day, another Tory sleaze scandal. This time the mate of David Cameron's to be caught out is also Boris Johnson's representative on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. It looks like he will be the latest Johnson 'adviser' to be shown the City Hall revolving door. Roll on next month when Caroline Spelman i...

Responding to today's warning from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that an extra 600,000 children face being pushed into poverty over the next two years, Ken Livingstone said: "With 4 in 10 London children currently living in poverty and this figure set to get worse over the next two years, London needs a mayor that will stand up for ordinary Londoners and take a stand against rising living ...

Boris Johnson today accused government ministers of causing the recession that it was now "rejoicing" in. The Conservative mayor of London singled out Ed Balls, the secretary of state for children, families and schools, for particular criticism as he rejected the suggestion that the recession was the worst in more than 100 years. Johnson blamed the government for exacerbating the recession as he p...

Boris Johnson's office has released a press statement condemning the 50p tax rate as "an assault on London". Research by the Greater London Authority says that 145,000 Londoners will be hit by Darling's "banker taxes". That 145,000 includes those earning...

Children might not be able to use a pen these days, but they have new means of expression, writes Boris Johnson.