Kiley treated for alcoholism

Hugh Muir
Thursday June 14, 2007
The Guardian

Bob Kiley, the consultant paid £3,200 a day to advise Ken Livingstone on transport issues, has been admitted to hospital in the US for his alcoholism and has spent the past three months in treatment, the London mayor disclosed yesterday.

The news follows uproar over the consultancy contract given to him by the mayor and his failure to attend the London assembly to answer questions on it.

The row began soon after the American, an ex-CIA agent and London's former transport commissioner, admitted in the Evening Standard he was highly paid for doing "not much". As commissioner Mr Kiley formerly got £2.8m a year. He later claimed the remark was flippant.

Amid angry scenes at the assembly yesterday, the mayor said Mr Kiley had been "clearly drunk" at the interview and that the paper had tried to damage him - a claim the paper strongly denies. The mayor said: "I deplore that someone having a problem with alcohol is used by the media as he was." Mr Kiley's contract now, including use of a £2m Belgravia house, was a retainer, he added.

Damian Hockney, of the One London party, said Mr Kiley could be paid £750,000 a year with no obligation to work.

Mr Kiley, whose present contract ends in 2008, can complete the last nine months based in the US.

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