More Boris Appointments

Thanks to reader Paul for alerting me to new Boris appointments:

+Westminster Councillor and new Assembly Member, Kit Malthouse He'll be called Deputy Mayor, Policing.

+Richard Barnes, leader of the Tory group on the Assembly, is appointed just plain Deputy Mayor.

+Sir Simon Milton, leader Westminster Council, is to be Senior Adviser, Planning.

+Ian Clement is named Deputy Mayor, Government Relations. He's stepped down as leader of Bexley Council.

See the GLA press release here.

Comments

[Tom]

Revenge of the Right it is, then, so much for big tent Boris. Richard Barnes is an especially nasty piece of work, with rentagob opinions that TfL are populated by '1979 throwbacks' and people with the brains of amoebas. Thank goodness we got rid of rude old Ken Livingstone, eh, and back to some decent gentleman politics.

Malthouse is a vehement anti-congestion charge campaigner, too, and wasted Westminster council money challenging it in court, (which is something that Gilligan savaged Livingstone for doing over Metronet, interestingly).

I'm getting a very bad feeling about all these appointments, which seem far from the liberal Conservatism we've been led to expect. Much more the old school Nasty Party of Maude, Duncan-Smith and co.