Posts Tagged ‘Andrew McGrath’

Caching in on a censorship get-around

24 June 2008

So Boris Johnson has experienced his first major public relations disaster.

When it was suggested to James McGrath, a key political advisor to Johnson, that the prospect of a right-wing London mayor might encourage older Caribbean migrants to leave London and return homeward, he responded: “Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.”

Marc Wadsworth’s original post which broke the story (and which, it has to be said, reads more like a part-serialised autobiography than a political scoop) has given rise to no shortage of net chatter. (more…)