It's the monthly Mayor's Question Time tomorrow morning. I suspect that the matter of financial controls at the LDA will feature prominently, after the Mayor came out fighting at his press conference this morning. He has secured the support of several community figures - Sir Herman Ouseley, Richard Taylor, Rev Nims Obunge and Dawn Butler MP.
A motion for urgent debate has just been circulated by the Lib Dems:
In light of the articles in last week's Evening Standard, and the allegations levelled in those articles about some of the London Development Agency's processes and the role played by one of the Mayor's advisers, this Assembly calls on the Mayor to refer these allegations to the District Auditors of the GLA and the LDA and asks that the District Auditors investigate and report back their findings in as short a time frame as is possible.
Given the political balance, this or something quite like it is probably going to be approved. We will then see if the Mayor is willing to comply.
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And what would it look like if Livingstone refuses an independent audit in the face of substantial allegations?
Fishy, fishy, fishy.
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