Mayor of London, Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has put his foot in it again. Only this time, he's only pissed off fans of Sir Patrick Stewart and science fiction. The former Mayor of London appeared on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday (April 15) where he was quoted saying Patrick Stewart – who famously appeared as Captain Jean Luc ...

He said: “Policing in London is primarily a responsibility of the Mayor of London and you may notice that within the time you are quoting the Mayor has changed and knife crime was lower under Boris Johnson that it is under Sadiq Khan but I am not going to blame Sadiq Khan for all of it.” Jacob Rees-Mogg ...

On the sidelines of the summit, President Akufo-Addo will hold meetings with British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson; leader of the Labour Party and leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn; Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; and the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. The President will also deliver the ...

... The Sunday Telegraph that young officers "are afraid of using their stop and search powers for fear of getting it wrong", as data shows a dramatic drop in stops. It follows a political row over stop and search which blew up in a recent Cabinet meeting between the Prime Minister and former Mayor of London ...

Sadiq Khan and Jeremy Corbyn take Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's plight no more seriously than Boris Johnson ... When the Mayor of London invited thousands of Londoners to Trafalgar Square to watch an Oscar-winning Iranian film in March last year, it was only reluctantly that he agreed for the ...

I like to imagine the Mayor of London, late at night, combing the thesaurus for fresh superlatives to bugle his 'unprecedented programme of far-reaching improvements' for the taxi trade (allowing black cabs in more bus lanes) or his ... I worked for Khan's predecessor, Boris Johnson, so perhaps I'm biased.

Boris Johnson has been urged to apologise after it emerged that he attended the launch of local Tory campaign that has been accused of “dog-whistle racism”. ... It warned that the influence of London mayor, Sadiq Khan, could lead to the borough ending up “resembling Hackney, Newham, Camden and ...

Boris Johnson is to bury the hatchet with Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, whom the foreign secretary once labelled a “gigantic fraud” and a “giant octopus”. The pair, who clashed when Mr Brown was prime minister and Mr Johnson was London mayor, will meet to discuss how they can advance ...

The letter adds to the pressure on Johnson over his role in the troubled story of the planned pedestrian link across the river Thames, which he commissioned and championed as mayor of London, a job he held until May 2016. In total, £46.4m of public money was spent on the project, but construction never ...

Despite the eye-watering sums involved, Boris Johnson, who was largely responsible for the handling of the project during his tenure as Mayor of London, this week claimed he “did not waste a single penny” on it. Questioned on the collapsed project by the London Assembly, Johnson was remorseless ...

Boris Johnson questioned about Garden Bridge scheme | At a hearing held yesterday by the oversight committee of the Greater London Assembly, former mayor of London Boris Johnson was asked a series of questions about the controversial Garden Bridge scheme, which was scrapped in August 2017 ...

Boris Johnson has insisted he would have pushed on with the controversial Garden Bridge and blamed his successor Sadiq Khan for wasting millions of pounds of public money on the project. In a bullish appearance at City Hall, the former London mayor described the collapse of the project as a ”bitter ...

Boris Johnson could be investigated for misconduct in public office if it is shown that political pressure from him while London mayor played a role in the loss of more than £40m of public money on the city's abandoned garden bridge, a senior lawyer has said. Labour and the Liberal Democrats also said ...

Still, why should Boris Johnson know this, he was only mayor of London for eight years, eh? 16. Even if he was right about where the boundaries ran, the congestion charge is a lot easier to enforce than an international customs boundary. 17. For the congestion charge to work, all the authorities need to do ...

The foreign secretary said it was a "very relevant comparison" because money was "invisibly" taken from people travelling between Camden and Westminster when he was London mayor. London's congestion zone charge does not involve manual checks. Labour said his comments were "typically facile ...

Former mayor of London Boris Johnson has ridiculed him for it, referring to him as “Sadiq hashtag useless Khan”, at the same time as dismissing the Labour politician a “puffed-up pompous popinjay”. In June 2009, when Khan was promoted to minister of state for transport, he used his Twitter account to ...

Johnson, who is fifty-three, was a journalist before entering politics, in the late nineties, and the mayor of London for eight years before becoming the disheveled, chummy face of the official “Vote Leave” campaign, in 2016. He models himself self-consciously on Winston Churchill and Britain's other great ...