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| Labour MP Kate Hoey will work for Boris Johnson if the Tory candidate becomes London's mayor, it has been announced. | Labour MP Kate Hoey will work for Boris Johnson if the Tory candidate becomes London's mayor, it has been announced. |
| The former sports minister would advise him on sport and the 2012 Olympics as an unpaid non-executive director. | The former sports minister would advise him on sport and the 2012 Olympics as an unpaid non-executive director. |
| Mr Johnson said: "I am determined to bring talent from across politics and the community to a new administration." | Mr Johnson said: "I am determined to bring talent from across politics and the community to a new administration." |
| Labour mayor Ken Livingstone said Ms Hoey had been "a sort of semi-detached member of the party in recent years". Brian Paddick is the Lib Dem candidate. | Labour mayor Ken Livingstone said Ms Hoey had been "a sort of semi-detached member of the party in recent years". Brian Paddick is the Lib Dem candidate. |
| Mr Johnson said: "Kate has a huge and well-known commitment to sport and to London." | |
| I'm surprised he's going to take her advice on sport because I think the reason Tony Blair sacked her at the end of his first term, was because she'd been involved in all the fiasco over Wembley Ken Livingstone | |
| Ms Hoey complained in January about a lack of scrutiny of Mr Livingstone's City Hall advisers and a "cult of silence" which stopped people speaking out about alleged malpractice. | |
| "There has been a cult of silence because... every time anyone raises a criticism you are either branded as being racist or being pro-Boris Johnson," she said. | |
| Speaking on LBC radio, Mr Livingstone described Ms Hoey as "eccentric". | |
| "She was one of the few Labour MPs to vote against banning fox-hunting," he told LBC Radio. | |
| "But I'm surprised he's going to take her advice on sport because I think the reason Tony Blair sacked her at the end of his first term, was because she'd been involved in all the fiasco over Wembley. | |
| "But I suppose she knows more about it than Boris does." | |
| Londoners go to the polls on Thursday. |