Local officials in Britain are spectacularly impotent. No wonder the main memory we will have of the capital’s mayor is a stunt on a zip wireIn a recent BBC documentary marking Boris Johnson’s years as mayor of London,I was asked what I thought his legacy was. My retort: I struggle to really mediate of one.
Predictably, this has been seen as a criticism of Boris. But people have got the improper end of the stick. As I said in the interview, and my comment wasn’t intended as an attack on Johnson: it was supposed to be an attack on Nick Clegg. Let me explain.
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Source: theguardian.com