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Susan Hall, leader of the City Hall Conservatives, said: "This is a mayor who will sacrifice London's precious green spaces to appease his Labour paymasters."

Conservative paymaster general John Glen said high performance in Whitehall was not "recognised, rewarded or incentivised properly", and suggested linking civil service pay to performance.

Her job begins by collecting wholesale consignments from her anonymous paymasters, which she then weighs into smaller packages and hides around the city for their customers.

"Labour promised change, but in 10 short weeks all they've delivered is a change of clothes for themselves. Labour have made the political choice to put themselves and their union paymasters before the most vulnerable."

The letter from shadow paymaster general John Glen asks whether the PM or his chief of staff, the former civil servant Sue Gray, had requested the pass for Lord Alli.