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Insider Research

Understanding the heart of Westminster

Wednesday 15th July 2009 | 15:08

Westminster: Boris has achieved little of note as Mayor

Majorities of MPs, journalists and insiders across the political spectrum agree that so far, Boris Johnson's mayoralty has suffered from a sense of drift

There is a cross-party consensus within the political community that Boris Johnson has so far acheived little of note during his tenure as London Mayor. 

That’s the latest verdict from the PoliticsHome Phi100 panel, over three quarters of whom agree with the assessment that since Johnson took over as Mayor there had been ‘no notable achievement, no sense that anything important will change, no grip’. 

The Phi100 includes frontbench MPs from all the main parties as well as media commentators, party strategists and heads of think tanks. 

The politically balanced panel were asked to say whether they agreed or disagreed with the following statement about Boris Johnson’s mayoralty:

'There’s no notable achievement, no sense that anything important will change, no grip. Real problems are not solved – in fact, there’s not even a discernible attempt to solve them.'

77% – including majorities of left-leaning, right-leaning, Lib Dem and non-aligned panellists – agreed with this judgement. 

18% strongly agreed. 

Expectations were low

A left-leaning media panellist said: ‘Labour got Johnson really wrong in the election when they went for him being a racist. He isn't a racist, he's a chump.’

A parliamentarian complained that ‘he has stripped the Police and other areas of vital resources.’

A Lib Dem panellist confessed that ‘expectations were low or realistic from the start!’

Overall approval - but slipping

The regular Phi100 Mayoral Tracker shows that a majority of the panel still feel that Johnson is doing a good job as Mayor, although approval is declining. 

55% say that Johnson is doing a good job as Mayor, but the figure is down 19% since last month. 

The Mayor will be hoping to reverse this trend before his net rating moves into negative territory for the first time. 

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Derek Emery

The days of living high on the hog on public debt are over. The UK is now entering an era of cutbacks in spending which will bite even harder once the election is over.  These cuts will probably last for a couple of decades.  It's going  to be hard for anybody running public services to be popular when budget restrictions and cutbacks are the norm.

Sid

As a Londoner , Mr Johnson (London Mayor) has managed to freeze the Mayors part of our council tax ,this has allowed my local council (Tory) not too raise our council tax, in fact they have recently announced they are going to give a cash back to all residents of £200'ish in December to help boost the local economy.

And before someone says "service cuts" , nope just better management of services compared with the previous local administration.

So keep up the good work Boris and don't let the lab grind ya down !

Sid

Correction to my post , it's a £50 cash back , not a £200 !

 

 

jonathan

The Tories should have put up Steve Norris, who knows how to do this job.  Cameron was supposed to be about changing the party but isn't putting up someone people in your party don't believe is up to it just more of the same?

Paul
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  • 04 Aug 2009
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He won't be able to make any great inroads until the London Assembly is disbanded.

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