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War of Boris deputies: Malthouse briefed on Greenhalgh ‘molestation’

11:25am Thu December 13th
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Stephen Greenhalgh and Kit Malthouse

A deputy mayor of London, Kit Malthouse, is behind leaks which led to his colleague and fellow deputy Stephen Greenhalgh being exposed for ‘molesting a female member of staff in a lift’, Scrapbook can confirm.

As we indicated yesterday, the incident, for which Greenhalgh has apologised, is now the territory of a Tory turf war within City Hall. With Greenhalgh finally being hauled before Boris yesterday after Scrapbook broke the news that one of his team were the subject of allegations, the blame game has begun in respect of who knew what and when.

As the director responsible for the department in which the incident occurred, ex-BBC man and City Hall spin doctor Will Walden is likely to come under pressure to explain when he was informed of the incident and whether he followed appropriate procedures.

Why did it take factional external briefings for action to be taken?

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Boris’ deputy tried to block News Of The World hacking probe

2:12pm Mon March 5th
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In keeping with Boris Johnson’s antipathy towards the numerous hacking investigations, his deputy has been accused of trying to stall the police investigation into News Of The World. As the chair of the Metropolitan Police’s governing body, Kit Malthouse complained to senior officers “several times” about the probe.

In written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry today, former Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson spilled the beans, revealing that Boris’ deputy — who moonlights as a hedge fund boss — repeatedly whinged about the investigation:

On several occasions after Operation Weeting had started … the Chair of the MPA, Kit Malthouse, expressed a view that we should not be devoting this level of resources to the phone hacking inquiry as a consequence of a largely political and media driven “level of hysteria”.

In response, Stephenson argued that the media’s behaviour towards “vulnerable members of the public” meant the reopening of the investigation was inevitable.

The revelations come after Boris claimed in an interview with ITV last week that “the caravan should move on” and that too many resources were being spent on the case. Johnson has in the past referred to the furore as “codswallop” and a “politically motivated put-up job”.

True to form, Boris’ administration doing the bidding of the establishment.

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