Showing posts with label Boris Johnson. Show all posts
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

Spiral Notebook: Why London's Left will be keeping an eye on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

swearing_in.jpgIt's Eyes Left as Bill de Blasio takes up residence in New York City Hall with the promise of the kind of new socialism that Labour's Ed Miliband has been test-driving.

Combining tax-the-rich rhetoric with redistributive zeal, De Blasio, a former aide to the last Democrat Mayor (David Dinkins), arrived from nowhere in the 2013 primaries to take the most important municipal post in the US on the promise of aggressive remedies to close the "affordability gap".