London Mayor Boris Johnson was today slammed for announcing just one Rape Crisis centre, and not the three promised in his original manifesto.

In a video (below) he offered just £635,000 over three years to support women suffering from rape and domestic abuse. He had originally promised £744,000 a year for four years – a cut of nearly 2 million pounds.

BBC News report

Responding to the Mayor’s announcement, Boris Keep Your Promise campaign spokesperson Matilda Mitford said:

While any amount of Rape Crisis funding is always welcome, today’s announcement is in truth a huge £2 million cut, cynically spun by the Mayor as a funding announcement. Since his election Boris Johnson has made repeated changes to his original Rape Crisis pledge and when confronted by our campaigners only a few weeks ago, Boris reaffirmed his manifesto commitment to fund an extra 3 rape crisis centres showing himself as Mayor of Spin.

She added:

According to today’s announcement, each year he will have given less to Rape Crisis than his ‘chicken feed’ yearly second income, a far cry from his grand promises during election time. Until Mr Johnson makes good on his original manifesto commitment of £744,000 a year and three new centres, we can only assume that he is giving as little as he can get away with. Trying to score political points at the cost of some of societies most vulnerable women is no way to defuse this row.

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