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Andrew Adonis claims to be ‘deadly serious’ about his proposal to relocate the House of Lords to a midlands or northern city. London, he writes in a letter to the Spectator, is ‘New York, Washington and LA rolled into one, which is…
The latest YouGov poll on the London Mayoral race has Ken Livingstone trailing Boris Johnson by six percent - 53/47 - (five percent on first preferences), but a remarkable 78% of voters believe that Johnson is a “mayor for the rich” - and…
Day three of coverage for Labour’s London election campaign broadcast and the interest it provoked has not abated. That itself makes it an effective campaign initiative. Most election broadcasts disappear without trace. Ken’s will be talked…
Roy Hattersley, in one of his many works, describes the moment in 1981 when he knew he would rather stay inside a Labour Party he believed to be doomed, rather than join his many friends and ideological bed-fellows in the Social Democratic…
Two weeks ago, the Conservative government launched an attack on Londoners’ living standards. Four hundred thousand London pensioners hit by the ‘granny tax’. Two hundred and fifty thousand families in London losing out on tax credits…
The latest poll on the London mayoral race has Ken Livingstone trailing Tory incumbent Boris Johnson by 4 points (in the all important second round) and 5 points in the first round. Considering last week was a tough one (to say the least)…
Talk from the chattering classes this week might have centred on tax, spreadsheets and rows in lifts. But ask any of the hundreds of Labour activists who have been out on the doorstep meeting voters this week and they will tell you that the…
On the first morning back at work in the New Year Ken Livingstone and I were out with a host of party members leafleting commuters coming off the trains at London Bridge. They were fed up with the shocking fare increases and the…
For too long the London Mayoral debate has been distracted by a peripheral argument about Ken Livingstone having a company and how he pays his tax. That whole soap opera is a monumental insult to the electorate. It is farcical that an…
Following last night's Newsnight debate, Ken Livingstone's campaign has argued that that "full disclosure" on an agreed basis between the main campaigns is needed. In a letter sent this morning to the agents of the other campaigns, Ken…
After the Newsnight Mayoral Debate, Ken Livingstone's team accused Boris Johnson of rehashing old stories and negative attacks. Their statement is as follows: "The Tories' campaign is entirely about negative attacks and raking up old…
Well there's an hour of my life I won't get back. Tonight's Newsnight debate was billed as a proper grilling for all of the candidates, but it was anything but. It was a circus. A shouting match. All of the things that turn people off…
