Mayor’s statement against Antisemitism letter for publication
Dear editor,
I was pleased to see that Mayor Boris Johnson has at last signed the Mayors’ declaration against anti – Semitism. But why did it take him so long to do so? I first asked him if he would sign by bringing it to his attention in a Mayor’s Question tabled as long ago as 9th November for last year’s 18th November Mayor’s Question Time. As I couldn’t get a straight answer from him, I had to repeat the question twice – three times in all – at subsequent Question Times, before he finally got round to doing so, nearly 3 months later.
He may now have other things on his mind with his quest for the Conservative Party leadership, but he remains Mayor of London until May and at a time when we have seen a significant rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the capital over the last year, I would have thought that he could have shown a much higher degree of leadership to London than this belated and apparently grudging effort.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Dismore AM
Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden