Bromley's MPs have been left "disgusted" after Ken Livingstone compared Boris Johnson's new chief of staff to a man accused of genocide.  The Labour mayoral hopeful described Eddie Lister, the former leader of Wandsworth council, as "the beast of Wandsworth" and "the Ratko Mladic of local government", at a public meeting at the Crooked Billet pub in Penge High Street last Wednesday.

Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military leader, is currently at the United Nation's war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, accused of genocide and other crimes against humanity, including the massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in 1995.

Orpington MP Jo Johnson said: "Even by Ken's standards, it's an appalling remark and an insult to the victims of genocide. It shows a complete lack of perspective and a divisive approach to politics understandably rejected by Londoners."

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