You mean, Boris doesn’t want to talk about Ray Lewis?
Boris claimed he’d be more open to scrutiny than Ken ever was. So, naturally, he’ll rearrange the second meeting of the City Hall Standards Committee he missed today to attend a photoshoot. The Troll informs us:
Has anyone seen the Mayor? I’m only asking because he’s just missed his second meeting of the City Hall Standards Committee.
Under discussion is the question of who should make sure he hasn’t employed any congenital liars, and how to avoid staff suing each other. So nothing that important really.
And that:
And with the Standards Committee being the only Assembly committee that he has any statutory commitment to attend, it is pretty disappointing that he has so far missed every single meeting.
Very true. If he’s to be accountable, he really does need to start attending the committees designed to hold him to account. That’s especially true of this committee, which today explored how Boris’ administration managed to miss Ray Lewis’ record - questions he really ought to answer.
It’s almost as though he’d prefer not too…