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The Mayor's latest book, Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City that Made the World, is released on November 3. Mr Byrne yesterday told the Standard that it is "truly astonishing" that he "can find the time to write a book when he was elected to run London".

During his speech last night at the Churchillian Award Dinner, an evening to celebrate the life of Winston Churchill, Mr Johnson compared himself to the wartime leader and hit back at the shadow secretary of state for work and pensions.

In a thinly veiled attack Mr Johnson said: "If some Lefty, snivelling opponent tells you that you can't combine writing and politics you can remind them that Churchill wrote journalism throughout his career.

"And then he continued, I discovered the other day, to write the history of the English speaking peoples - more than 20,000 words of it - after Hitler had invaded Poland and when he was in charge of the entire British Navy."

A spokesman for Mr Johnson said that he started to write the book before the mayoral election in 2008 and completed it in "his spare time".

Mr Johnson's campaign director Lynton Crosby today added: "Boris Johnson works tirelessly for the people of London and is turning around the mess left by Ken Livingstone and Labour.

"According to an analysis of the official diaries of both Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London, Boris has held, on average, more than double the number of meetings per month than his predecessor did while he was in office.

"And Boris has visited almost every borough in London more in three and a half years than Mr Livingstone did in his eight years.

"Ken Livingstone and Labour's tactics to attack Boris Johnson are not only baseless, they are deceitful."