The Scoop

Boris gives £95,000 job to former Evening Standard editor

Adam Bienkov | Friday 7 September, 2012 17:20

●

Boris Johnson is to pay the former editor of the Evening Standard £95,000 a year to advise him on volunteering, he announced today.

Veronica Wadley, who campaigned vigorously for Boris’s election in 2008 will become the mayor’s new “Advisor, Team London, Volunteering, Charities and Sponsorship.”

Part of her role will be to promote “positive volunteering.” Her job will set London taxpayers back a total of £118,655 a year. The first year will be unpaid.

Boris previously appointed Wadley as the London chair of the Arts Council.

In 2008, Wadley’s newspaper repeatedly criticised the former Mayor Ken Livingstone for allegedly awarding jobs and contracts to “cronies.”

News of Wadley’s appointment has so far gone unnoticed by the paper.

Filed in:

Snipe Highlights

Some popular articles from past years

  1. The five best places in London to have an epiphany
  2. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  3. Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
  4. Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
  5. The best church names in London, and where they come from
  6. An interview with Desiree Akhavan
  7. Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
  8. London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
  9. Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
  10. Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?