Ken Livingstone has accused Boris Johnson of 'incompetence and lack of commitment' after claims that the Mayor tried to 'offload' work onto senior advisers... more
THERE comes a point where you can no longer keep saying that black is white and get away with it: a Stephen Byers moment, where someone once taken seriously sets out towards discredit and defeat. For the London Olympics, that moment arrived last week. ... more
Boris Johnson's team failed to vet disgraced deputy mayor Ray Lewis thoroughly because they were focused more on campaigning than on making detailed preparations to run City Hall... more
David Cameron is using Boris Johnson's takeover of City Hall as a "dry run" for his own first 100 days in government, the Standard has been told... more
Ken claims he was the victim of doughnut city, whereby London's inner core was betrayed by the Tory suburbs. But the people of Ilford and Hayes are just as much real Londoners as those of N1 ... more
The outcome of the mayoral race is not only a decisive event for the capital: it is the first major clash of Labour under Gordon Brown and the Cameronian Conservatives... more
This week sees the official start of the mayoral election campaign. Despite weeks of skirmishing, Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick are still in the foothills of the struggle that lies ahead... more
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