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Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson snagged top honours on GQ's 2010 worst-dressed list . Brown is the worst of the worst, according to the magazine. " Anything but a prime example of British style ," GQ laments. Brown moved up two spots from...(read more)  

David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 5 January 2010 at 10:03:00 Mayor of London worried about the prosperity of the Square Mile as reports surface of Goldman Sachs moving parts of its business out of the UK Boris Johnson has warned that the 50% windfall tax on bankers' bonuses could cause a stampede of City workers out of the UK....  

A reader from Leyton asks the following:I was wondering if you knew what would happen if Boris were to stand as an MP in the next election. Would he have to resign as mayor and if so how would his successor be decided?I already knew the answer to the second part of the question. If Mayor Johnson steps down at any point between four-yearly mayoral elections his statutory deputy, presently Richard Barnes AM, would not take the helm. Instead a by...  

BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 5 January 2010 at 12:21:00 As Twelfth Night heralds the end of the festive season, Boris Jonhson calls on London households and businesses to ensure their Christmas trees are recycled Is there a Christmas Tree sitting in the foyer of your company's London Office? If so, Boris Johnson wants to get his hands on it....  

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson is insisting that proposals to rebuild the Northern line station at Elephant & Castle with escalators to replace the current lifts will have to be funded by the private sector.  

Harriet Harman has written a piece in the Evening Standard attacking the "massive" fare rise that has come in today. There are a number of things to bear in mind when reading the piece, which I recommend you do. Firstly relatively few people will actually receive a fare rise at all, the over 60s who use the freedom pass (valid 24 hours a day from 2nd Jan 2010), school children on free travel, those on job seekers allowance etc. who don't...  

Simon Fletcher, who was Ken Livingstone's chief of staff when he was Mayor, today started work as Labour's London Campaign and Research Director. His job will be to hone and co-ordinate the party's attacks on Livingstone's nemesis in the run-up to next year's general and borough elections. It is a post that needed filling. Boris's track record is now long and distinctive enough to make him a more definable target than he was for most of his...  

Londoners can now compare average rent levels for homes across the capital, using a new interactive website launched by London Mayor, Boris Johnson. The London Rents Map shows the average rents for private accommodation for each postcode area in the capital. Unlike existing search portals which show asking prices posted by estate agents and individuals rather than rents achieved, it is based on actual market rents. This makes it the most...  

My most recent Cif effort began:David Cameron might disagree but Boris Johnson is an unusually reliable politician. I don't mean that in the sense of, say, dependably dodging awkward questions – something the London mayor excels at – but in terms of personal philosophy. He may be cunning, evasive, shameless, ravenous for power and a bare-faced populist, but all this is rooted in a deep intellectual consistency. There is a unity, a wholeness...  

At the last meeting of the Assembly committee scrutinising what Mayor Johnson yesterday described so aptly as "The Wadliad" it was decided that its chair, Dee Doocey, would write to GLA chief executive Leo Boland to ask what arrangements would be made for the re-run of the selection procedure to choose a chair of London Region of Arts Council England (ACE). She did this on 7 December, asking:One: How many stages in the process will there be...  

This shocking image arrived, unsolicited, in my in-box this morning. After enduring much anguish over the ethical issues involved I concluded that it is my responsibility, dear readers, to share it with you and the wider world. I recognise that it may distress and disillusion many of Boris Johnson's friends, fans and fellow Conservative Party members. I know that the reputation of the London Assembly too may be damaged by the spectacle of its...  

Transport for London has announced that the UK's first roadworks permit scheme will start in the capital on 11 January. Mayor Johnson said: If companies want to dig up the roads, they must do so in a coordinated manner that causes the minimum disruption to Londoners - and this permitting scheme is a crucial step towards achieving a sensible solution.This talk of steps and co-ordination puts me more in mind of Strictly Come Dancing than men...  

This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell Rev Agu Irukwu is homophobic and divisive London – 9 December 2009 “London Mayor Boris Johnson has made a big mistake by agreeing to attend a carol service hosted by a homophobic clergyman,” said gay human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, of the gay equality group OutRage! He was commenting on the [...]  

From the Guardian:Boris Johnson today called on the government to allow London to adopt a US-style scheme to raise money for projects, increasing his financial independence from the government.In a report published today, the Conservative London mayor and Merrick Cockell, the Tory leader of the umbrella group for London councils, included the idea of tax increment financing (Tif) to help fund projects in the capital during the economic...  

As Inside Housing reports, Simon Milton yesterday acknowledged that Mayor Johnson and Richard Blakeway won't be hitting their affordable housing target of 50,000 by the end of the 2010/11 financial year. This follows some fairly bullish noises only a month ago. Here's Boris from his own press release:We're already on track to deliver 50,000 affordable homes which will benefit thousands of Londoners but this success cannot be an excuse to take...