About time to.
The Government Office for London will be scrapped under government plans set out today.
The responsibility for security and taxation will be clawed back by other departments or devolved to the Mayor. Ministers have indicated the move will save £15 million a year as part of wider Whitehall cost-cutting.
But of course labour don't agree.
But Labour said London was in danger of slipping down the Government's list of priorities. Shadow minister for London Tessa Jowell said: “I'm sure Londoners will want to know which department and how issues such as security, taxation and other areas of major policy that are not devolved to the Mayor will be delivered in their interests.
Another power base draining away.
Typical Labour and its Islington set. The governments priorities are the UK not their power bases.
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