Anyone wishing to know what Boris Johnson would be like as prime minister should watch his performance in front of the London Assembly yesterday.
Johnson was repeatedly asked about allegations of a "semi-corrupt" relationship between City Hall and developers of London's Royal Albert Dock.
The questions followed an investigation by Channel Four News last week which found worrying links between the mayor's quango London and Partners (L&P) and Chinese developers ABP.
Channel Four discovered that an adviser to the company had donated large sums to the Conservative party in advance of the £1 billion deal. They also alleged that L&P had shared offices with the developers and that one of L&P's employees had later moved over to work for them. They also raised serious questions about the company's human rights record in China.
In unusually frank language, former chairman of the government's Committee on Standards in Public Life Sir Alistair Graham, told Channel Four that the deal had "the smell of a semi-corrupt arrangement."
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