It looks like the May’s election for Mayor of London will be a close run thing. A new poll
today from YouGov has Ken Livingstone two points ahead of Boris Johnson – a big turnaround from the
eight point lead Boris had in June:
Ken shouldn’t be popping any champagne corks yet, of course. His lead is well within the poll’s margin of error, and there’s three and a half months to go before election day. But he’s certainly
looking more likely to topple Boris than he did seven months ago.
So why the change? YouGov’s Peter Kellner has a good article on the poll’s details here, but two key points jump out from the numbers:
1. Labour voters are getting behind Ken. In June, 21 per cent of Londoners who said they’d vote Labour in a general election supported Boris over Ken for mayor.
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