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Resignation puts pressure on London mayor

Boris Johnson was accused of plunging the London mayoralty into ‘complete disarray’ after his chief of staff became the third senior official to quit in three months

London not a Tory test-bed, says Johnson

London will not be used as the ‘Petri dish’ for developing experimental Conservative policies, the new mayor insists in an interview with the FT

Probe of London body finds millions misspent

A panel set up by mayor Boris Johnson is set to report failings of governance by the board of the city’s development agency under his predecessor, Ken Livingstone

Castro outfit and champagne in mayoral bid

Boris Johnson’s push to be elected London mayor involved a Fidel Castro outfit, 48 bottles of champagne, 260kg of rubbish and 1.5m crime leaflets

Setback for Johnson as aide quits

Ray Lewis, one of the London mayor’s top aides, stepped down amid misconduct allegations that he said were ‘unfounded and untrue’ but were obscuring the work of the office

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Comment and Analysis

Private sector needs some public spirit

Luke Johnson

In the UK too few business superstars are willing to take time out of the private sector to help in areas such as education, health and welfare, writes Luke Johnson

Small Talk: Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson

Who would I choose to play me in a film? If not Brad Pitt, it would be Jake Gyllenhaal but with a wig. Ed Hammond interviews the Conservative candidate for London Mayor

A party stranded between defeat and disaster

Philip Stephens

The urge to eject Brown is disdainful of UK voters, who may think they should have a say in the choice of prime minister, writes Philip Stephens

Winning back the business vote

David Cameron claims he knows what makes business tick. Yet, business praises Labour’s London mayor for promoting development and transport links. Whatever the outcome in the mayoral election, Cameron should learn from that

London

Oyster card contractor fired after £1m failures

TfL is to end early its contract with TranSys, manager of the swipecard used on UK buses, light railway and the Tube, after the shutdowns last month that cost lost fares

Johnson plans space for small retailers

The London mayor attracts mixed responses to his proposal that property developers should set aside an ‘affordable’ proportion of new retail space for independent shops

Johnson reverses skyscraper and homes policy

London mayor will scrap a target of making 50% of all new homes affordable and restrict new tall buildings, in fulfilment of his more contentious election pledges

Livingstone and companies tie up on emissions

London mayor seeks to persuade the city’s largest businesses to sign up to independent carbon audits as part of plans that call for emissions cuts more quickly than government targets

London rolls out first low emissions zone

London has established the UK’s first low emissions zone, imposing charges on heavy-polluting trucks, in an attempt to clean up air quality in and around the capital

Metronet’s future in mayor’s hands

Boris Johnson faces tough negotiations with the government over the future of the maintenance and upgrade contractor, which has been taken over by Transport for London

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