Boris - one year on.

Summing up Boris Johnson's first year in office is surprisingly easy - meh. People can make claims about what he has achieved but any real steps forward are undermined for me by his mindlessly illiberal banning of booze on the tube and the fact that the transport system is still utterly, utterly fucked.

Perhaps the best thing about Boris Johnson's time in City Hall is the illustration of what we can expect when (and it is when now, not if) the Tories win the next election - mediocrity. Boris has managed not to be as ghastly as Livingstone, just as Cameron will manage to be less of a prick than Gordon Brown. But anyone expecting radical change will be grossly disappointed. The Tories are as bought into the Blairite consensus as Labour and the Lib Dems - they just choose to highlight (slightly) different aspects of that consensus.

After one year of Boris, little has changed. And I expect to be making a very similar point when Cameron celebrates his first year in power.