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The latest YouGov poll for the Evening Standard has Boris Johnson leading by 4 points with just three days to go in the London Mayoral contest*. Last week the gap was just 2 points. YouGov polls are taken particularly seriously in Mayoral…
We now know from this week's Sunday Times Rich List that the billionaires are getting richer by the day whilst the rest of the country faces austerity and lengthening dole queues for the young. Shockingly, the richest 1000 gained an extra…
The stakes at the London election are not at all about the personality contest that the media prefer. They are much more important than that. If the Conservative Party win in London on Thursday there is a very real risk they will conclude…
Ed Miliband was out in Ealing with Ken Livingstone as the London Mayoral election enters its final days, and sought to contrast Ken's pledges for London with the Tory Mayor's record. Speaking to LabourList, Miliband said: "Ken is…
Brian Coleman is a man who is rarely out of the limelight. Regular readers may remember the £120k a year councillor telling a single mum to "live in the real world". As well as being a Barnet councillor, Coleman is also a member of the…
Last month a letter to Ed Miliband from a number of Jewish Labour supporters which noted their concerns with Ken Livingstone was leaked, and received considerable media attention. Now signatories of that original letter have posted an open…
And so it begins. Newham Council’s decision to attempt to rehouse 500 families 160 miles away in Stoke-on-Trent is the first in a line of much predicted fall-out events from the double whammy of the Localism Act and the Welfare Reform Act…
There has been predictable crowing from the Tories this morning over a poll that puts Boris Johnson 8 points ahead of Ken Livingstone with just a week to go in the race. That's not a completely crazy result on its own - as I said when…
Today’s announcement, that if elected next week Ken Livingstone will appoint Oona King as his young people’s champion, is welcome news for London. This focus on ensuring they achieve their potential can only benefit all of London’s…
The London election is neck and neck. It is game on for Labour. We can win this but only if we pull the stops out. For weeks there seem to have been two Mayoral election campaigns. The one you read about in the papers where Labour has been…
Ken Livingstone has pulled out of an upcoming BBC Mayoral debate over the presence on the panel of the BNP. Livingstone also dismissed the BNP candidate urging his supporters to give Livingstone their second preferences, saying it was…
There's a predictable brouhaha erupting this afternoon after Lord Sugar urged his nearly two million followers not to vote for Ken Livingstone for mayor. That has predictably led to a series of people on all sides of the political divide…
