Liberal Democrats will announce the name of their 2012 Mayor of London candidate on August 12th, making them the last of the capital’s main four parties to select a candidate. Labour and the Conservatives confirmed Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson as their candidates last summer and the capital’s Greens named three-term London Assembly Member as […]
2012 London Election
News and coverage of the 2012 elections for Mayor of London and the London Assembly (The Greater London Authority).
Oh look, Ken’s been rude. Again.
In case you missed it, Ken Livingstone has got himself yet another bout of negative publicity by being rude about someone. This time the target was Boris Johnson’s new Chief of Staff who the Guardian’s Dave Hill reports Ken describing as “the Radko Mladic of local government.” Unsurprisingly people aren’t happy with the comparison of […]
LibDems question Mayor’s bus crime figures
Claims by Boris Johnson’s re-election campaign that crime on buses has fallen 30% “across London” have been questioned by Liberal Democrats at City Hall who have accused the Mayor of using “misleading” figures.
Greens announce 2012 Assembly candidates
A former Assembly Member who served during London Assembly’s first term is hoping to return to City Hall as part of an enlarged group of Green Party AMs.
Is TfL helping Boris paint a re-election picture?
Browsing Boris Johnson’s 2012 re-election campaign site I was struck by the familiarity of a couple of the images illustrating blog posts on it – both seem identical (cropping aside) to images contained in the online gallery which Transport for London makes available to the media.
