Happy Birthday BoJo

City Hall has been free of the left's tyranny for one year today. Whilst his critics have tried as hard as they can to make a fuss, Boris has had a good year. The Dispatches attempt at a hatchet job made for compelling TV drama given the fact that it contained nothing of substance.

Boris hasn't been a puppet to CCHQ and has taken some bold and much needed moves whether it be an amnesty for illegal immigrants in the capital - against the Tory grassroots, or his passionate and honest rejection of the new 50p tax rate - against the Tory leadership. Boris is his own guy and that's why he is most successful when left to get on with things in his own way.

Roll on year two.