PinkNews.co.uk has learnt that Gavin Hayes, the general secretary of left-leaning pressure group Compass, is being touted as a more viable challenger to Ms Hoey.

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Fortunately for the Labour Party, Boris Johnson not only remains a contradiction incarnate but now provides the public a high-profile fishbowl of Tory (opportunistic) contradictions too! As we know, despite his, and the Tory Party’s, proclamations, Johnson’s actual policies contradict them and do not give anyone any confidence that they will help lead toward the proclaimed goals. How would Johnson justify and reconcile his apparent anti-crime tough stance with his actual opposition to the proposed automatic five-year sentence for knife/firearm possession? Or reconciling Cameron’s green leanings with his own declared intention to undermine Ken’s new Congestion Charge initiatives against the gas guzzlers?   

From today’s Sunday Times, Page 2: -

"The problem with Ian Blair is that he is not a policeman's policeman. He is more interested in getting all the boxes ticked, in meeting targets than actually fighting crime."

It's a bizarre claim, and possibly actionable. If Boris seriously wants to cut crime, perhaps he should start with criminal libels against serving policemen?

In the general sadness and shock at Ken losing the Mayorality (and Boris winning) comrades may have missed a couple of things. First of all there were swings TO Labour in several places and we won an extra GLA constituency (Brent and Harrow, Navin Shah).

BBC reporting that Kate Hoey has agreed to work for Bozo Johnson, in a non-exec capacity on the Olympics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7372823.stm

The Johnson campaign have been denying their opposition to the new 24 hour Freedom Pass, but the Linton Crosby inspired mask appears to have slipped.

Boris Johnson has not declared his 33% shareholding in a TV production company he jointly set up about 20 months ago. The MPs code of conduct requires any shareholding greater than 15% to be declared in the MPs' Register of Interests.

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Some of them are just pant-wettingly funny

Hoey to back Boris for Mayor job?

Hat tip to Dave Cole

Perhaps in order to demonstrate that decision-making by a committee of 100 experts doesn't work, Politicshome has suggested a 'winning strategy' for Ken Livingstone that is unlikely to work.

Ken should try and slip this into one of his campaign ads!

In the Newsnight debate last night, Boris Johnson was all over the ropes as he struggled to defend his botched election pledge on buses.

Boris was off on one again in the Sunday papers.
 
This time, he seems to have convinced himself that he's the victim of a "huge leftwing conspiracy".

Ken's catching up. Could a comeback be on the cards?