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Gazing through horn-rimmed spectacles, the genial politics lecturer from London Metropolitan University does not make the most fearsome of revolutionaries. His front door is pink, and his front room a beguiling mess of books, children’s toys and old jazz...
Tags: City of London, London Citizens, London Parliament, Corporation of London, London Metropolitan University, London County Council, London Mayor, Greater London Authority, Greater London Council, Maurice Glasman, United Kingdom, London, Corporation, Economy, Ken Livingstone, Finance, Local government in London
no acting required Some people – like Boris Johnson in tonight's EastEnders – only ever seem to play themselves. Can you think of any others? London mayor Boris Johnson makes his soap debut in EastEnders tonight. Photograph: BBC/PA While other politicians...
Tags: Boris Johnson, London, london mayor, EastEnders, BBC
EU plans for tight regulations on hedge funds and private equity firms will be "enormously damaging" to London's reputation as an international financial capital, Mayor Boris Johnson warned today. He took the fight against the plans to Brussels, where...
Tags: London, Mayor Boris Johnson, hedge fund, Brussels, European Parliament, European Union, london mayor
The television presenter Anne Robinson was approached by the Conservative Party to stand for them as London Mayor but turned down the offer, she reveals today in an interview in The Independent. Ms Robinson, 64, known as the "queen of mean" for her insults...
Tags: Boris Johnson, Anne Robinson, London Mayor
Boris Johnson has dismissed the £250,000-a-year he earns from a controversial second job as "chicken feed". He insisted also that it was "wholly reasonable" for him to write newspaper columns on the side. But his comments are unlikely to please Conservative...
Tags: chicken feed, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, London, london mayor, Mr Johnson, shadow cabinet, newspaper column
UK, Thursday April 30, 2009 Scotland Yard chiefs are to face tough questions over the actions of their officers during the G20 protests at a meeting chaired by London Mayor Boris Johnson. The Metropolitan Police have faced criticism of their conduct...
Tags: London Assembly, metropolitan policing, Metropolitan Police Authority, policing authority, g20 protesters, london mayor, mayor boris, Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson's offer came as the latest cost of living survey revealed London is cheaper to live in than New York City for the first time since 2002. The mayor's office said an action plan to encourage more overseas companies to locate in London includes...
Tags: London, Boris Johnson, free rent, overseas companies, london mayor, mayor offering, free office
March 04, 2009, 23:14 London: The American embassy owes Transport for London nearly £3 million (Dh15.5 million) in unpaid congestion charges and penalty charge notices. The shortfall has been mounting since the zone was introduced in 2003 after the...
Tags: Greater London Authority, Labour, Harriet Harman, london mayor, Boris Johnson
London mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the opposition Conservative Party, allegedly launched a verbal-attack on NRI lawmaker Keith Vaz, by repeatedly using expletive words, after being accused of giving "different versions" to a parliamentary committee,...
Tags: London, Boris Johnson, london mayor, Keith Vaz, Scotland Herald
The mayor of London has been accused of prejudging the outcome of the police investigation of the Conservative lawmaker by revealing he had "a hunch" he would face no charges. A sub-committee of the London Assembly's standards board is understood to have...
Tags: Greater London Authority, London Assembly, BBC Radio London, BBC London 94.9, Boris Johnson, Mr Johnson, congestion charge, central london, london mayor, mayor boris