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 […]
Make the Fab Four the Magnificent Seven
Well this is interesting. Today’s polling. In spite of the saturation coverage provided by the BBC for the Greens and the LibDems (alongside what it calls the other two “main” candidates), and a very small rise in polling support for them, there has been just as much a rise in support for the outsiders (in […]
Video: How London’s City Hall votes are counted
Have you ever wondered how the (hopefully) millions of votes for City Hall’s 26 political occupants are counted, checked and verified? Election organisers London Elects and their IT contractor IntElect have kindly talked me through the process and demonstrated the scanning technology involved at a mocked up counting facility. It was election geek heaven! Extra […]
Labour launch Operation Save Ken
Earlier this week Andrew Gilligan wrote that he detected a shift in Ken Livingstone’s strategy to win City Hall, appealing for support from those looking to name their second best would-be Mayor. Comments made by Livingstone at last night’s Evening Standard hustings would seem to support Andrew’s hunch. During the debate Livingstone made a direct […]
