- Question by: Angie Bray
- Meeting date: 12 June 2002
Let me put it this way to you. You talked about other mayors elsewhere. Actually, any mayor I can think of - whether they be in Paris where they are drawn from the successful party, or indeed New York where you have either a Republican or a Democrat - they are able to draw on their own party resources and loyalties which are transparent to the people who are then electing the parties. I put it to you that one of the reasons why he couldn't use the services of his Deputy in his absence was precisely because it would...