Dave Hill: Twenty-five years of London Mayors

Dave Hill: Twenty-five years of London Mayors

It’s 25 years since Londoners first cast votes for a directly-elected Mayor and 25 London Assembly members. Every now and then someone still pops up to say that they and the Greater London Authority should be abolished, but few people in the business of running the capital and making things happen there agree. Yesterday, for example, John Dickie, chief executive of BusinessLDN – which, under its original name of London First, played a big part i…