While Sadiq Khan haemorrhages cash on vanity projects and stalling London services he’s pushing ahead with expanding his team of policy advisers. An advert has now gone up for a permanent adviser in the shadowy Policy and Delivery Unit. In an unfortunate typo Khan says he’s looking for someone with experience in roles “across the pubic or charity sector”…

Proposals for a new Policy and Delivery Unit were put forward in 2021. Since then it has quietly come into operation – there are almost no public mentions of the unit apart from a brief description in last year’s Annual Governance statement:

“The Mayor’s Mayoral Policy and Delivery Unit (MPDU) brings together the Senior Advisors to the Deputy Mayors to oversee and drive delivery of the Mayor’s priorities across portfolios. It also works to ensure policy development is joined-up and coordinated across the GLA family, provides steers on cross-cutting policy and delivery work, and leads the clearance of policy reports and documents.”

In a deleted LinkedIn post the Mayoral Head of Policy said he sought to put together a “team of givers” when creating the unit last year. More vapid work being handed out to ideological allies no doubt…

Khan’s new adviser will take home £57,000 per annum. Not even half of what’s paid to the less-than-useless “night tsar” Amy Lamé…