Jenrick warns the City of London Corporation to ensure “heritage and tradition are given robust protection”
By Harry Phibbs, Conservative Home:
The City of London Corporation is very much an anomaly in terms of local authorities. In 1965, changes brought about in Greater London saw the creation of 32 boroughs. This was a dreary reform that saw administrative logic sweep aside tradition and local identity. But just as Asterix and Obelix defended “one small village of indomitable Gauls” against the Romans, there was a small exception which resisted the bureaucratic conformity that was fashionable at the time. Such was the importance of the City of London’s status in our island story that an exemption was allowed for the square mile. It was too well-entrenched. All the legal protections granted by Royal Charter. The pledge in the Magna Carta that “the city of London shall have/enjoy its ancient liberties.”
Thus to the fury of the killjoy Lefties, all the pomp has survived. The banquets and the Lord Mayor’s Show. The sheriffs, the aldermen, the livery companies, the town clerk, the chamberlain, the beadles. The police with their special helmets. The special voting arrangements for its small electorate.
How extraordinary then, that of all local authorities, this bastion should have captured by the forces of wokeness. Last month the BBC reported:
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