Today’s Comres poll makes for poor reading for the Liberal Democrats and their Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick. When weighted for turnout (Table 8), the poll suggests just 5% of Londoners plan to give him their first preference votes next Thursday – less than will back the Green Party’s Jenny Jones. As if polling lower than […]
Martin Hoscik
7 days till polling – what you need to know
Next Thursday (3rd May) Londoners will go to the polls and decide whether to elect Ken Livingstone or Boris Johnson as the next Mayor of London. We’ll also elect 25 Assembly members to hold that Mayor to account. You can find the Mayoral, London Assembly Constituency and List candidates on this site. Elsewhere London Elects […]
Time for the London Assembly to step out of the shadows
Last week I pre-recorded a short interview with BBC London which got bumped after Boris announced his 10% Council Tax saving. Some of it aired tonight and seems to have gone down badly with a couple of Assembly Members because I was unable to name personal highlights from the current term. I can understand people […]
10 ideas for London
Over the next two weeks the Centre for London will be publishing 10 big policy ideas for the new Mayor of London. Ideas already published include creating time limited Pop-up Parishes, abolishing business rates and allowing London employers to set a city-wide transport levy on the model of London’s successful Business Improvement Districts. Pop along […]
Labour voters to give Boris a second term?
Writing for City A.M, YouGov’s Stephen Shakespeare says Boris Johnson’s current poll lead is down to Labour supporters who might yet decide to back Ken Livingstone and warns the Mayor “should not be feeling the slightest bit comfortable” about a second term. Livingstone’s poor polling follows weeks of negative headlines about his tax arrangements but […]
