Prior to ruling out any extension to congestion charging zones while he's in City Hall, the Mayor told the Assembly on Wednesday:
There was an absolutely barmy story in the Evening Standard...completely crackers. Not for the first time I felt a deep sense of kinship and sympathy with the former Mayor, because I really thought the Evening Standard lost the plot.
How interesting. If Boris feels for his predecessor over the treatment he received from the Standard, why is he so determined to give its editor of the time a job? Not logical, Mr Spock. There have been new moves in this outrageous backscratch tango. Watch this space.
Update, 21:32 Here's the latest. Guardian arts correspondent Mark Brown:
The London mayor, Boris Johnson, is considering making an interim appointment to the Arts Council post that last week provoked a bitter row over cronyism...One option being considered at City Hall is appointing a stopgap candidate who would take on the role of Arts Council London chair until the general election. If the Tories win, Johnson could then appoint his nominee, the former Evening Standard editor, Veronica Wadley.
Now read on.
