The Mayor of London doesn't have any power over the City of London Corporation. They are completely separate authorities.

The Corporation is essentially a unitary/borough-tier local authority, overseeing the "square mile" centre of the city, and has a council of elected councilmen. It provides housing, education, social services, street cleaning, markets etc for a small area of central London, and has existed since time immemorial.

The Mayor's remit, which has only existed since the year 2000, covers the whole 600-square mile area of Greater London, and provides strategic services like transport, strategic planning, fire and rescue, and the metropolitan police.

The Mayor of London wouldn't have had any involvement in this at all.

▲ dghf 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Fun fact, the City of London is the last local authority in the UK where businesses as well residents get to vote. Businesses can appoint one voter for every five employees up to 50, and then one per 50 employees after that.

▲ randomcarbloke 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Fun fact, comments like this give me the impression this place is turning into reddit.

▲ rvense 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.

	▲	blibble 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		there are more business votes, but practically very few people actually use their business vote as a business voter I went to my ward's annual meeting (wardmote), they were surprised to see a non-resident there nearly the entire thing was about issues residents care about (late noise, cycle paths, petty crime, etc) that and their amazing new plans for billingsgate/smithfield the other are a couple of other things to remember about City ward lists: `1. employers have no involvement other than picking their voters -- it's up to the individuals 2. due to the allocation rules: micro-businesses have most of the votes, so small food vendors have significantly more votes than all the large businesses`

▲ randomcarbloke 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is actually a common misconception, since the GLA controls the LLDC, TFL, and LFC it has enormous influence on the square mile.

Significantly as I noted in my original comment the transit from outside the CoL into the market, but also directly.

▲ wbl 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Not to be confused with the Lord Mayor of London.

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asveikau 7 months ago | parent [-]

I think a lot of people who don't know much about London are surprised that the City of London is quite small and not what people generally mean when they say "London".

	▲	Angostura 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		AKA "The Square Mile"