This afternoon something rare will happen in this election campaign. David Cameron will campaign in London. While bus-ing and jetting all around the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, the capital has all but been forgotten by the Prime Minister during the short campaign.
Like so many aspects of this general election campaign, Wednesday’s event will be closed to journalists. So what’s going on?
Tory worries in the capital are growing. Polls have Labour out ahead by double digits, and many of Miliband’s expected gains will likely come from greater-London marginals.
Mr S is repeatedly hearing complaints from Tory activists that the data they have in London is massively skewed by ‘the Boris factor’. Pledge data is artificiality high, as it was collected during the 2008 and 2012 Mayoral elections, where voters who are not natural Tories promised, when canvassed, to vote for Boris and they were incorrectly recorded as Tory supporting households.
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