Jack Dromey: ...them to assess whether their local authority was paying its lowest-wage workers at an accepted threshold. The London living wage has sought to address that point. I have stood on platforms with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and the Deputy Prime Minister from which we have collectively advocated the value and virtue of the London living wage. I am sure that Ministers agree that...
Jack Dromey: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. It is one law for Boris and another law for Britain.
Jack Dromey: ...in a fire sale of £108 million-worth of assets. They are blocking councils from gaining those assets and barring local enterprise partnerships from retaining them, yet they have seen fit to gift Boris Johnson with London Development Agency assets. Why can they not do the same for high-need, high-unemployment Birmingham?
Jack Dromey: ...whole industry, has warned of the consequences of not getting this right. What was the response of some Government Members? The response of the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) was “f*** business”. The response of the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) was that Ralf Speth was “making it up”. The right hon. Member for...