Channel Four has just released a striking exchange between Sir Ian Blair and Boris over the de Menezes case, released from Freedom of Information. Boris had gone on the radio to say that one could argue that the police had been “trigger happy” in Stockwell tube that Saturday morning. Sir Ian wrote to him saying this was “outrageous” and made out like Boris was making a general slur on the Met. BoJo had none of it saying it was “hard to think of any other description of a catastrophe in which a completely innocent man ends up with seven bullets in his head… If this man was thought to be a potential suicide bomber, why the hell was he allowed on two buses, and then down the Tube?”
To me, this reveals that Boris-whose critics said he’d be a mascot, not a mayor – is not letting the City Hall machine run on autopilot.
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