Boris Johnson won a stunning victory over Ken Livingstone, London's Mayor for the last 8 years, on 1st May appropriately St Boris Day.
The new Boris broom is already sweeping out many of the former mayor's darker recesses in City Hall. Boozing on public transport in London is to be banned and an audit promised of the workings of the London Development Agency aka Ken's piggy bank and the focus of corruption allegations involving the Mayor's former Community Relations Advisor, Lee Jasper. (Jasper has comically enough, announced his intention to become a Labour MP).
The head of the LDA, Manny Lewis has been asked to leave along with a number of Ken's other special advisors. Some who saw the writing on the wall have jumped, like Dave Wetzel (Dave Spart in satirical magazine Private Eye) while the more canny, including the Police Commmissioner, arrived in Boris's office on Day 2 with detailed plans on how to implement his campaign agenda.
Four deputy mayors have been appointed to support the notoriously disorganized Boris in the day to day working of the job.
Fashopn note: Boris had a daily haircut imposed on him during the campaign and is looking more shevelled these days but for how long who knows?
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