The Bishop and the Mayor

If this made it into the national media I missed it there:

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will not be attending a July 7 remembrance ceremony in the city after being shunned by the Bishop of Edmonton, who described him as 'not a unifying figure'.

The Right Reverend Peter Wheatley, whose diocese covers most of the borough of Barnet, did not invite Mr Livingstone to the service at St Pancras Church tomorrow afternoon due to his controversial remarks to a Jewish reporter and subsequent outbursts which have been perceived as anti-Semitic. The decision was made by the event's organising committee, which includes the bishop, the Camden Faith Communities Network, West London Synagogue and Camden Council.

"The point was made strongly yesterday at a meeting of the committee that the Mayor of London is not a unifying figure on such an occasion," the bishop wrote, in a letter seen by this newspaper.
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Mr Coleman, to whom the Bishop of Edmonton's letter was addressed, said that the Mayor's remarks had offended much of the Jewish community. "... Mr Livingstone talks a lot about communities, but he only seems to apply this to certain communities," he said.

(Via.)