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Ken Livingstone has signed a pledge promising to be a one job, full-time Mayor of London - and at the first hustings on the contest, offered Boris Johnson the opportunity to sign it too. Johnson of course has a £250,000 a year column with…
According to the Guardian:"It has emerged that moves are afoot to see if the party can be described as "London Liberal Democrats" on the election ballot papers to bolster the party's campaign across the twin polls."You can rebrand as much…
This evening I took the unusual step of emailing my campaign’s supporters today to tell them what Boris Johnson’s campaign director has been telling the Tory candidate’s own backers. In fact I went one step further and forwarded the Tory…
The coalition government has slashed London’s housing budget by 60%, although you wouldn’t know it from the press release. Under the cover of giving new powers to City Hall, a budget of £3 billion has been spun to mask the huge cutsLondon…
Ken Livingstone's campaign is using targeted direct mail campaigning today utilising interactive smart phone technology to draw attention to Ken's "Fare Deal", with thousands of print materials being delivered to households in every…
There's another poll out today on the mayoral race from YouGov for the Evening Standard - and after Ken Livingstone's surge in their last poll, it's now Boris who is (just) ahead (51-49). We're well within the margin of error, as we were…
Earlier today on BBC's London Politics Show, it was revealed that billions of pounds were inaccurately added to Boris Johnson's official budget document - a mistake that a spokesperson for the Tory Mayor attempted to dismiss as a "clerical…
Boris Johnson has made a great deal about his green initiatives - from cycle hire to electric vehicles. But as has been well documented, the Mayor’s record leaves a lot to be desired. The cycle hire scheme has only been used by a fraction…
A quite remarkable statement today from Tory AM Tony Arbour - picked up by the excellent Adam Bienkov: "It is a fact is it not that relatively few Londoners use London transport in any way? Most people don't use London transport with any…
I love Twitter. I love the instant reaction to whatever is happening in the world. I love the silly jokes and memes . I love the people I talk to regularly from all over the UK and the genuine sense of community that is built up. I’m a…
If someone had told me a year ago that Ken Livingstone would be the first politician in the world to announce a policy by text message frankly I wouldn’t have believed them. Neither would I have believed them if they’d told me Ken…
There's an interesting post by Rafael Behr over at the New Statesman today about the possibility of Labour MPs standing down from Parliament to run either as mayoral candidates or police commissioners. According to Behr, much of the…
