When presented with a choice of just Khan and Goldsmith, the candidates most likely to top the first round, Khan is the choice of 55% of poll respondents with just 45% naming Goldsmith.
LibDems promise half price Tube fares to early starters
The party’s candidate, Caroline Pidgeon, has pledged to halve Tube, DLR and London Overground fares for those who travel before 7.30am, a move she says “would really help some of London’s lowest paid workers who often have to work unsocial hours.”
Boris’s “vanity” cable car likely to stay open until 2021 after TfL accounts show it makes a surplus
London’s cable car looks set to get a reprieve despite initial suggestions that it could close if Labour’s Sadiq Khan replaces Boris Johnson as Mayor later this year.
Goldsmith claims credit as Govt agrees to build two new homes for each council house sold
The Government is to amend its Housing Bill to provide a “binding legal guarantee” that two new affordable homes will be built for each high value council house sold under the Right to Buy scheme.
Sadiq Khan vows to scrap funding for Boris’s cable car to fund fares freeze
The mayoral hopeful recommitted himself to the policies as many Londoners returning to work after the Christmas break saw the cost of their journey rise after Mayor Boris Johnson sanction an overall 1% increase in TfL fares.
