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10 June 2013

What needs to be in Boris’s London 2020 “vision“

The mayor finally needs to offer a compelling account of the city he wants London to be.

By Ben Rogers

Tomorrow, Boris Johnson, publishes his long-awaited “vision”, setting out what he wants to achieve for London by 2020. (That 2020 would be the year a third Johnson term would end is no doubt a complete coincidence.) 

This is an important moment in Boris’s mayoralty. He came to the job having run nothing larger than a small weekly magazine – the Spectator – and with a good Tory wariness of anything that smelled of bureaucracy, including the long tiresome strategic documents which bureaucracies are wont to produce.

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