Boris Johnson's fifth MQT is the first to be held since his administration at last settled down and began to show some sense of direction. Should we happy with its trajectory so far? In some areas it's still quite difficult to judge, in others it depends on what you're looking for. The original "waste" agenda was starting to look all talk but the crunch has started to bite, most notably in transport, housing and the Olympics. Some will rejoice in this, others will feel that Ken Livingstone would have been more determined to keep spending projects alive.
Such key areas will be probed in this morning's verbal questions (pdf), which include subtle ones from Labour's Murad Qureshi (No: 2164) and John Biggs (No: 2169). The former addresses Johnson's Tory conference speech promise to sponsor 20 new academy schools in London through the LDA. The latter is an attempt to embarrass the mayor over his policy director Anthony Browne's venomous past outbursts against London's immigrants.
Watch the live webcast from 10.00. I'll be reporting back later today.
