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In January 2013, Gilligan was appointed as the Cycling Commissioner for London by the Mayor, Boris Johnson. Accusations of "cronyism" were made following the appointment as Gilligan was considered instrumental in toppling the Mayor's main rival, Ken Livingstone. He helped deliver London's first
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paid "substantial damages" to settle a defamation case brought against it by Mohammed Kozbar in relation to an article by Gilligan in March 2016. Gilligan had accused Kozbar of supporting Palestinian violence against Israel's occupation. Gilligan tweeted that he stood by what he wrote.
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segregated cycle superhighways and was subsequently given an award by the London Cycling Campaign for his "outstanding contribution to cycling." In August 2016, Gilligan was part of a wave of redundancies at
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apologised and paid substantial damages as part of an out-of-court settlement for defamation due to false claims made by Gilligan in a series of articles alleging corruption surrounding the purchase of
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Gilligan was appointed as a special adviser to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in March 2023. He was reportedly instrumental in persuading Sunak to abandon the proposed northern leg of the
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immediately afterwards. In 2019, he was appointed transport adviser by the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, based in the Downing Street policy unit. In July 2020,
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and was shortlisted for the award again in 2015 for investigations which helped cause the downfall of politician
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He was awarded Journalist of the Year in 2008 for his investigative reports on
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Between 2007 and 2009 Gilligan presented a fortnightly programme for
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and had also served as head of the Capital City Foundation at
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in which he described a British government briefing paper on
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After resigning from the BBC, Gilligan was offered a job at
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Gilligan resigned from the BBC in 2004, in the wake of the
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Until July 2019, Gilligan was senior correspondent of
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