Mayor’s Question Time with Livingstone and Transport Commissioner Bob Kiley this morning.

Wily Kiley! He is a clever operator. The Mayor, however, did a bunk on his westward extension of the congestion charge. I came out against the expansion months ago – wrong system, wrong place, £100 million outlay and no return – just hopeless. Not like the original and stunningly successful central congestion charging scheme.

However, the Mayor used the opportunity of my questioning him about priorities for this £100 million to begin his slippery slide into not going ahead with it. He conceded that it was no longer ‘high priority’ but now some sort of middling priority. So – it’s basically off the agenda for now – as it should be.