Three weeks till polling day and Ken’s supporters are getting desperate. The increasingly poor handling of his tax affairs is pushing the mayoralty ever further from his grasp.
Last night’s public debate didn’t produce the repeat of that heated lift incident that the crowd was hoping for. The only issue that provoked real anger was that of Ken’s tax affairs. When moderator Clive Anderson turned to Livingstone to ask about his tax arrangements, the crowd exploded with jeering and shouts of ‘champagne socialist’. Ken floundered, unable to brush off the attack. The latest polling from ComRes also suggests that Ken’s campaign is in serious trouble. Boris has now pushed forward to 53 per cent of the vote, opposed to 47 per cent for Ken.
And the response from the Labour camp today shows their strategy is shifting from ‘Ken for London’ to ‘Anyone but Boris’. In the Guardian, Mehdi Hasan tells
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