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Hoey faces Labour demands to quit as Johnson adviser

Labour MP Kate Hoey today faced fresh pressure to quit as an adviser to Mayor Boris Johnson.

Activists in her Vauxhall constituency are to call on her to resign from her post as an unpaid sports commissioner at a meeting on Thursday.

But her constituency Labour Party denied a report that there were fresh moves to deselect her. The branch's secretary Kevin Craig said: "The clear majority of the constituency Labour Party is very happy with Kate as an MP. There is some division about whether she should continue as an adviser to Boris Johnson."

Labour members in Vassall ward are also demanding to know when she accepted the post. Ms Hoey announced in the run-up to the mayoral election in May that she was willing to be an adviser to Mr Johnson, delivering a blow to the then Labour mayor Ken Livingstone.

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