News from London Assembly Labour

Boris’s broken promise “a huge blow to the Tories’ plans for elected police commissioners”

Today is the London Assembly confirmation hearing for Kit Malthouse as chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority. Labour will be pressing its concerns over the direction of policing.

Former policing minister Tony McNulty MP told Labour Matters:

“Boris Johnson’s appointment of Kit Malthouse is both a broken promise on his key pledge to take this role himself and a huge blow to the Tories’ plans for elected police commissioners.

“Under Johnson and Malthouse police numbers are being cut and the signs are that safer neighbourhood teams as we currently know them will be eroded. Only this week the resignation of a key member of the race and faith inquiry brought Kit Malthouse’s role into question.

“Londoners have the right to ask what Boris Johnson is really delivering and what happened to his promises for London.”

Other news from London Assembly Labour

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• Boris Johnson's comments are ill-judged and offensive - 9 February 2012
• Ken answers his critics about his support for LGBT rights - 8 February 2012