My take on yesterday's dramas:
"Clear thinking and calm, courageous leadership for London," said the line of spin I received yesterday from someone at Boris Johnson's elbow. Depends how you look at it. Courageous? Well, it certainly took nerve, and The Blond seems not to bottle easily. Clear and calm? Enemies might prefer to call it coldly ruthless, characteristics not previously associated with the capital's new mayor except by some who've had close dealings with him. Me, I went back to what his friend and former editor Charles Moore told The Week In Westminster straight after his election.
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