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The info materialised on the council’s website at half past five on a Friday evening. When asked why, the Mayor said “staff, resident representatives and councillors” needed to be briefed.
He continued: “We also ensured that up-to-date information was in Hackney Today. Once this work was complete, we published it online.
“I would not accept that 17:33 was in anyway an issue as the information was designed to be from the council to the community not a statement to the media.”
So why give it to a council-run freesheet, before posting it on the council website at 5.30pm on a Friday, when few are likely to read it?
A mayor who makes announcements on Twitter and wants to talk directly to “the community” rather than inform the media. Who does that remind you of?
◆ Two days: How soon after the Grenfell Tower fire Hackney Council had completed “initial cladding tests”. Twelve days: How long it took the council to tell the media about the tests.
