Night czar’s City Hall no-show

Over to the Mayor of London and his minions. While the Prime Minister has been busy giving pay rises to train drivers, it seems London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan continues to employ Amy Lamé as his night czar on, er, £132,846 per annum – after already receiving, as Mr S revealed, a 40 per cent pay hike. Good heavens…

However it appears Lamé hasn’t being doing much work for that payout. Following six weeks of ‘unplanned sick leave’ – during which London’s night czar curiously still managed to host her BBC radio programme – Lamé then proceeded to take yet more time off work for a holiday in August, leaving the Beeb’s Emily Pilbeam to fill in for two weeks. While Mr S is naturally delighted to report Lamé has returned to her radio show, it appears that the night czar can’t quite manage to turn up to City Hall – from where she takes her six-figure salary – when she’s meant to.