He came, he chatted, he bent a pipe. The London mayoral race entered its final week with Ken Livingstone trailing Boris Johnson, as the Labour candidate struggled to get out of second gear.
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Monday 22 November 2010
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Livingstone will use cuts to spearhead Mayoral bid
Saturday 25 September 2010
Ken Livingstone promised to put the impact of spending cuts on London at the heart of his campaign to oust Boris Johnson as he was confirmed as Labour's candidate for the mayoralty in 2012.
Ken to take on Boris again in mayoral race
Friday 24 September 2010
Ken Livingstone today vowed to eject Boris Johnson from City Hall after he was selected as Labour's candidate for the London mayoral elections of 2012.
Ken Livingstone: 'Boris said we have to work into our eighties – I'm helping out'
Monday 09 August 2010
As he prepares for another mayoral race, the veteran politician tells Andy McSmith that he is still fighting fit
Oona King: 'I can appeal to Tories as well'
Monday 28 June 2010
Oona King took a battering when she lost her MP's seat in 2005. But now she's back as would-be London mayor.
Johnson to stand for second term as Mayor
Thursday 24 June 2010
Boris Johnson is preparing to run for another four years as the Mayor of London, Conservative sources disclosed last night.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The grip of the imperial imagination
Monday 14 June 2010
Gove wants to own and whitewash the story of British imperialism
Livingstone opens his mayoral campaign
Wednesday 02 June 2010
Ken Livingstone launched his bid to make a comeback as London's Mayor yesterday, attacking his successor Boris Johnson over steep rises in public transport fares.
Oona King to launch bid to be London Mayor
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Former MP Oona King will launch her bid to take on Boris Johnson as Labour's candidate in the London mayoral election in 2012 today, the first to formally declare her candidacy since nominations opened yesterday.
Galloway looks on the bright side despite losing east London stronghold
Friday 14 May 2010
Jerome Taylor hears the Respect party founder claim the credit for the election of the country's first British Bangladeshi MP
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Wednesday 09 July 2008
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Pandora: PA problems bug Tony Blair
Monday 07 April 2008
The secret paranoia of former statesmen. The former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson memorably told two journalists: "I see myself as a big fat spider in the corner of the room. Sometimes I speak when I'm asleep. You should both listen. Occasionally when we meet, I might tell you to go to the Charing Cross Road and kick a blind man standing on the corner. That blind man may tell you something, lead you somewhere."
Galloway shows disrespect to his party
Friday 25 January 2008
George Galloway is to stand on an "Old Labour" ticket for the London Assembly in another attempt to form a new political force after splitting from Respect, the left-wing coalition that he helped to found.
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