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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Ken has now launched his new campaign website, which you can visit here. That reminded me of something else he said last year when I interviewed him: "By the end of the year, when my biography is…
by Christine Quigley The New Statesman yesterday highlighted this article on ConservativeHome's CentreRight blog about experiences of canvassing in Hackney. While the NS (kindly, I think) characterised it as a bad joke, the reality of it is…
Oona King was MP for Bethnal Green and Bow between 1997 and 2005, and is now standing for the Labour selection to be mayor of London. She met Alex Smith in Victoria on Monday, May 24th, 2010. You're announcing this week that you're standing…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Oona King will begin her bid to become London mayor with a week of activity across the capital. King, who was elected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 1997 and served as MP there until 2005 when she lost the…
by Daniel Crawford While most of the media was concentrating on the General Election, local results right under the nose of the Westminster hacks were actually very encouraging for Labour. Unusually for the governing party, Labour regained…
By Len Duvall AM This week marks the second anniversary of Boris Johnson's election as Mayor of London. With just days to go until the country goes to the polls, what does the administration of Cameron's Bullingdon Club colleague tell us…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 After two successful joint debate watch and campaigning parties for the first two leaders' debates, we're putting on more joint events this Thursday - in London and in Manchester. Labour supporters at both…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last week's TV debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg is being called a 'game changer' which has projected the Lib Dems into the limelight. 9.4 million people watched the debate, but none…
By Ken Livingstone The Conservatives' confirmation that it is possible that Crossrail may be cancelled under a Cameron government is dynamite for London politics. On the ITV debate last night Gordon Brown was right to say that when private…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Ken Livingstone says that Londoners should reject the Tories over the Crossrail risk. He said: "The Conservatives' manifesto failed to give a clear commitment on Crossrail and now Shadow London…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This year's unprecendented TV debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will be crucial points in the general election campaign. They are also an opportunity for Labour to reach a wide…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Out campaigning in Hammersmith, Alan Johnson has issued a challenge to every Conservative candidate in London to back the capital's safer neighbourhood police teams, after Conservative mayor Boris Johnson…
