London Mayor Boris Johnson has appointed a second gay deputy mayor. Sir Simon Milton, the head of the Local Government Association, will now oversee planning and policy for the new Conservative mayor.

Milton replaces Ray Lewis, who recently stepped down after accusations arose over his private life and “claims relating to his time as a vicar and while running an academy for young people,” according to PinkNews.

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He said: “I believe that I can make a significant contribution to making Londoners’ lives better and making Boris Johnson’s Mayoralty a success.”

“What’s a nice guy like Simon doing in a set-up like that?” Labour’s leader on the LGA, Sir Jeremy Beecham said to the Press Association.

“The saga of the new Mayor’s first few weeks in office has seen a succession of blunders, culminating in a decision to upgrade Simon from an unpaid adviser to deputy mayor only a fortnight after he was re-elected as LGA chair, a position he now has to relinquish, ” he added.

Sir Simon and his partner Robert Davis, 49, a former mayor of Westminster and current cabinet member for planning held a civil partnership a year ago.

Now, two of Johnson’s five deputy mayors are openly gay. Previously, Johnson had appointed Richard Barnes.