Anthony Browne, Director of Policy Exchange for just eighteen months, is to step down and become Head of Policy for Boris Johnson. During his time at PX there was a doubling of staff numbers but a concern that the think...

Anthony Browne, the director of Policy Exchange, is going to work for Boris Johnson as the Mayor's policy director. This means that the job of running the most influential think tank on the centre-right is now up for grabs. Given Policy Exchange's influence on the Tory leadership—James O'Shaughnessy went from being head of research at Policy Exchange to being head of policy for the Tories, a...

Guido writes, quite rightly, about the renaissance in free market think tanks. One of the liveliest and most infuential is, of course, Policy Exchange, and it's something of a coup for Boris Johnson to have lured its director, Anthony Browne, to be his policy director. It's also very good news for London to have so able a man directing policy. What a change from the Socialist Action cell which too...

Boris Johnson did not even formally meet with his new Policy Director Anthony Browne before handing him a six figure salary position at City Hall. Documents released to the London Assembly today reveal that the former director of Policy Exchange, had just one 'telephone interview' with the mayor before landing the role.  In a letter sent to the london Assembly Chair Jennette Arnold, Boris states ...

Richard Barnbrook of the BNP thinks Tim is a ‘nice chap’.  Are there any of Boris Johnson’s Policy Exchange appointees the BNP don’t approve of? Following on from the shock announcement this morning that Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has lost yet another Deputy Mayor I am currently sat by the telephone expecting an important call.As ...

I think that Boris Johnson just enhanced his reputation. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has fallen into a river while launching a drive to urge Londoners to volunteer. While helping to clear up the River Pool in Lewisham, south-east London, he tripped and fell in, getting wet up to around his chest, then stumbled away. Mr Johnson was helped to his feet by volunteers who he was helping remove li...

The Bendy Jihad is a joke policy - you can’t take it seriously even though you know it’s the product of ghastly propagandists you wouldn’t want to be seen dead in a ditch with.  When Policy Exchange turn their black arts to grown-up issues it’s a much more serious matter.  From Politics Home via Lib

A vibrant financial sector is vital, says Mayor of London Boris Johnson in a passionate defence of the City.

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and his most senior deputy today distanced their administration from the findings of an investigation commissioned by Johnson into the financial stewardship of the Greater London authority and the London-wide organisations it partly controls

A week ago the director of the right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange, Anthony Browne, joined London Mayor Boris Johnson as his new policy director. This deranged loon and purveyor of tabloid rubbish needs to be exposed.