Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey has released a statement to members of Vauxhall CLP regarding her appointment by the Mayor Boris Johnson and the controversy surrounding the announcement during the election campaign

Johnson today announced that Hoey would be Commissioner for Sport - see http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=16913

Boris:
1st Pref 1,043,761
2nd Pref 124,977
Total 1,168,738


Ken:
1st Pref 893,877
2nd Pref 135,089
Total 1,028,966


Rumour has it that Jack Straw and David Miliband are considering leadership bids.

The BBC and pretty much everywhere seems to be useless on getting London results out.  However the Labour Representation Committee is doing well, as is Union Futures.  They seem to be your best places for following the results.

I am sick to the back teeth with how anyone could back a racist, bigoted, homophobic toff for mayor.....a person that has made a career out of acting the clown!

Well, to start off on a good note, Stroppyblog carries news that in Hackney, London, the Hackney gazette has decided not to publish advertisements by the BNP or to give any more column inches to a discussion on whether or not the BNP merits attack under the category "racist" or "fascist." It's nice to see that collective left wing action can still get things done, and it's one more step to stopping the BNP get a London Assembly member elected.

Well, as usual a clever move by Bob Crow and the RMT.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479174-details/Tube+strikes+on+the+eve+of+Mayor+vot e/article.do

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

Leaders from across the centre-left, civil society and from all corners of the UK, have today urged every progressive voter; activist and organisation to get behind the campaign to re-elect Ken Livingstone, in a statement co-ordinated by Compass.

For the latest information on Ken Livingstone's re-election campaign visit: www.londonforken.co.uk

The results of the Riverside By-Election are out. Whilst the Lib Dems held the seat. Labour increased its vote and the Tories were hammered.

Many thanks to everyone who's helped so far but we urgently need lots of extra help to beat the Lib Dems & Tories in Southwark's Riverside Ward by-election. Polling Day is this Thursday (13th Dec)!

Michael Foot's powerful courtroom drama The Trial of Mussolini gets its world première staged reading on 18th November 2007 at 730PM Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1  Tel. 020 7387 6617 Tube: Camden Town.  Mornington Crescent

Foot imagined Mussolini arrested and brought to London to stand trial for war crimes. An open and shut case?  But against who?  Too controversial to be published under his own name in the wartime Britain of
1943...

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today launched his draft London housing strategy in which he calls for an increase in the number of family homes being built in London

See below a statement Ken Livingstone has issued today to coincide with the start of the Tory hustings, a shorter version of which is also available on PA.

stToday Boris Johnson copied most of Ken's ideas and basically said the opposite of what he has been saying in his newspaper since Ken was elected outlined his vision for London.
And the RMT still hold a strike for no valid reason, UNITE do not.