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Hoey faces Labour demands to quit as Johnson adviser
Nicholas Cecil, Chief Political Correspondent22.07.08
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.
Reader views (4)
Unlike Labour I want the best person for the job not some NuLab numpty.
- Dave, London
I think Kate Hoey is being treated badly. Labour including Gordon Brown have brought in people from outside the party to help or advise on issues. The local Labour party are being trivial and petty. If Kate gets deselected she should remain and fight her position as an independent.. That will get rid of these damaging labour loonies. Boris has done the correct thing bringing in people who matter with experience regardless of party politics.
- Patrick Mc Crossan, London
For heaven sake, what sort of tribalism dictates that a Labour politician cannot be an advisor to a Conservative administration. Read Quentin Letts in this morning's Daily Mail. I think the left need a DNA transplant to turn them into human beings.
Kate is not a political advisor, she advises him on sport as she had some expertise. Just grow up.
- Michael Hargrave, Surbiton UK
Kate Hoey should take charge of Nu-Lab and put some backbone into the shower of Numpties and gutless cowards who continually hide behind a racist agenda.
- Mike, London
