MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The main purpose of this article is to consider the extremely damaging consequences for London that would follow from the implementation of Patience Wheatcroft's proposals for the London Development Agency.
Phil Slocombe (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics Ken Livingstone is full of glee at Patience Wheatcroft's forensic audit of the murky goings on at the London Development Agency. The former editor of the Sunday Telegraph was on scathing form when I spoke to her yesterday, saying that money was allocated on the "whim" of the ...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... had already been an informal approach, rebuffed by Livingstone in clear terms . But last Tuesday Patience Wheatcroft wrote him this note: Dear Mr Livingstone, You will be aware that the current Mayor asked me to chair a Forensic Audit Panel looking into the operations of the GLA and the LDA. During the course of our work we have interviewed many members of the Assembly, LDA board...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The last months of the tenure of the previous Mayor, Ken Livingstone, were marred by a series of revelations about grants from the London Development Agency going to unsuitable organisations, with suspicions that a network of cronies was doing nicely at public expense. Johnson brought in a team led by the journalist,Patience Wheatcroft, above, to investigate. They have recommended that...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Big interview with London's Mayor in today's Times in which Boris suggests that his London agenda could significantly inform David Cameron's agenda for Britain. Phil Taylor has already written for ConHome's Platform about Boris' first months in office. Here are four quick conclusions of our own: High points: The audit of London's finances by Patience Wheatcroft and the alcohol ban on...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
This is the damning conclusion of an audit into the London Development Agency under Ken Livingstone. During his eight years in power, millions were squandered on pet projects , approved without appropriate checks and balances, says the report, which was authored by Patience Wheatcroft at the behest of her long-time pal and occasional back-scratcher Boris Johnson. Contentious projects,...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
An independent audit conducted by a panel of anti-Boris bloggers has concluded that Patience Wheatcroft and her team 'misspent' £50,000 of taxpayers money. After months of briefings and hype, the team of Tory councillors and a Tory supporting journalist found absolutely no evidence of corruption or breached rules by Ken Livingstone, Lee Jasper or the LDA. We can therefore only conclude...
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Tory Troll reports: An independent audit conducted by a panel of anti-Boris bloggers has concluded that Patience Wheatcroft and her team 'misspent' £50,000 of taxpayers money.
James Cleverly (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Yesterday was Wear Your Uniform To Work Day for the TA. I decided not to even though I am a passionate advocate that the forces should wear their uniform s in public more. The reason for this was we had the Mayor's Questions yesterday and didn't want to overshadow his report on the work of the Forensic Audit Panel headed by Patience Wheatcroft. The report identified serious "failings...
Greater London Authority news (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... the Mayor was elected he announced the formation of a Forensic Audit Panel.The panel was led by Patience Wheatcroft and its members include Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh, Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Patrick Frederick, Chief Executive of Aimex International, Cllr Edward Lister, Leader of Wandsworth Council and Andrew Gordon, Head of Investigations within the Forensic Services...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
London audit reveals 'money wasted'
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
After weeks of speculation and anticipation the ‘Forensic Audit Panel’ set up by Mayor of London Boris Johnson to investigate ‘financial irregularities’ at the London Development Agency published its report today and immediately faced claims that it had failed to substantiate the allegations against Ken Livingstone’s administration. Patience Wheatcroft who chaired the panel said they...
Charles on... anything that comes along (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... of how he does it. Such as his response to an invitation from former Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft, and now chair of some committee or other, who invited him to come along and be cross-examined by their “independent” committee. Oh yeah. Sounds like a chicken being invited to come and see the new bathing pool by the crocodiles. “Dear Ms Wheatcroft, You are a member...
