It’s been quite a long weekend for Boris. Just moments after delivering his victory speech late on Friday night, he was shuttled a mile up the Thames to Millbank for a lavish party. Celebrating with him were his fellow Eton boys and former members of the Bullingdon club, David Cameron and George Osbourne, as well as Chess composer Tim Rice. The Mirror reports Boris’ sister reveling in the opulence of “champagne all night, oysters, caviar,” adding “God knows who paid for it.”
Not content with having delivered these details which will chill the already frosty Labour voting Londoners, Rachel went on to terrify the rest of the nation by revealing that she had quipped to her children that for Boris “It’s going to be City Hall one year and it might be Downing Street another year.”
Saturday then passed as the last Day of Ken’s mayoralty and on Sunday Boris ushered in his term by attending Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year festival, in Trafalgar Square. After pledging to be “a mayor for all London” and uniting communities, he praised the capital’s diversity, “the whole world in a city.” Then it was time for more photoshoots, including Boris in his new City Hall office, staring at his computer screen with a rather baffled expression.
On Bank Holiday Monday Boris told reporters that “it is now time to get down to business” and appointed former prison governor and youth crime worker Ray Lewis as deputy mayor for young people. Our new leader it seems will not let little details like the fact that Lewis isn’t eligible for the title get in his way, though afterwards somebody must have pointed out that only London Assembly members can be appointed Deputy Mayor, as a member of the Johnson team later clarified that Lewis was not the ’statutory Deputy Mayor’. Maybe we can look forward to an entire team of non-statutory deputies then, as this week will see Boris assemble the remainder of his team. Meanwhile however, one of his first policy priorities is understood to be banning alcohol on the Tube, so we urge you to enjoy combining the daily commute with an oak-aged single malt whilst you still can.
Bus-watch
No news on the new Routemaster yet, but maybe we should cut Boris a little early slack on this as the banks were shut all weekend and previous estimates on the funding required do seem to suggest he might do well to enlist some sort of financial advice. Rest assured that when there’s progress it will be reported here.
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