The leader of London Assembly’s Conservative group believes a pilot scheme in the capital would benefit both vulnerable sex workers and local residents Andrew Boff is not the favourite to become the Conservative Party’s candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as London mayor but he’s enlivening the contest for the job. Before the start of final week’s first hustings of the race,organised by the Centre for London think tank and Propect magazine and held in the grand environment of the Institute of Directors HQ in Pall Mall, a show of audience hands revealed that no one present planned to vote for him, and the only one of the four contenders with a beard and no tie. By the finish,Boff, the current leader of the Conservative group on the London Assembly whose mayoral programme would include giving away bits of public land to people who want to build their own homes, or imposing a maximum height of six storeys on new residential buildings apart from in five defined areas and working with other cities on de-criminalising cannabis possession,had persuaded a healthy minority that he was their man. He’d gained more support on the night than any of his three rivals, Zac Goldsmith, and Stephen Greenhalgh and Syed Kamall.
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Source: theguardian.com