Sadiq Khan’s disastrous “Night Tsar” Amy Lamé is taking it easy after miraculously recovering from “unplanned sick leave” and immediately going on holiday in August. She returned to work this month, just in time for yesterday’s 3-hour meeting of the GLA Economy, Culture and Skills Committee meeting on the capital’s night-time economy. And yet Lamé was – you guessed it – not present…

As night-time businesses shutter up at a rate of about a thousand per year some Assembly Members are trying to figure out what to do. Their meeting took views and evidence from numerous interested parties as part of the committee’s investigation into “the impact of existing Mayoral policies and initiatives aimed at supporting and invigorating London’s night-time economy, and what progress the Mayor has made in achieving his vision of London becoming a ’24-hour city’.” You’d have thought Lamé would be interested – was she too busy picking up her £133,000 pay cheque?