Boris Johnson denies he’s the Mayor

There’s a fascinating story from Adam Bienkov this morning, which reveals that Boris Johnson has tried to claim that he’s not the Mayor, in an attempt to claim that it was someone else – and not him – who ordered a City Hall pass for his controversial campaign manager Lynton Crosby. An email was sent by one of Johnson’s aides, saying:

“The Mayor would like Lynton Crosby to be issued with a security pass.”

Yet according to a statement by City Hall’s monitoring officer, it wasn’t Boris Johnson who asked for the pass, it was his (now deceased) Chief of Staff, Simon Milton:

“upon receiving a request from Sir Simon Milton, who, as the Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, was, quite properly, deemed to be acting and speaking on behalf of the Mayor, the Executive Assistant to the Mayor then presented, in good faith, the request for the pass as being on behalf of the Mayor… I have been assured that the Mayor himself was never involved in discussions on this matter.”

Sometimes at City Hall, the Mayor is the Mayor. But sometimes at City Hall, The Mayor isn’t the Mayor. Confused?

Read the whole story over at Adam Bienkov’s blog.