Former No 10 head of strategy Steve Hilton says Johnson hasn’t matched Ken Livingstone and it was Evening Standard editor’s idea for him to escape for mayor Boris Johnson’s legacy as mayor of London has been savaged by one of the prime minister’s oldest friends and closest political allies in explosive evidence of the increasingly toxic relations between the two men.
In a TV interview to be aired on Monday, David Cameron’s former director of strategy in Downing Street claims that the Conservative leadership had always been sceptical” of Johnson standing for mayor and suggests their fears had proven to be well founded.
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Source: theguardian.com