Brian Paddick is making a few quid out of the Daily Mail by dishing the dirt from his campaign diary. Worth reading for some light entertainment, though he does himself no credit in one or two places by stepping beyond the acceptable in releasing private conversations - I guess the money being offered was too good. Perhaps he was hoping to regain some self-esteem for a lamentable campaign by criticising the LibDem party machine. Safe to say, Paddick won't be a LibDem candidate again, from both sides' point of view.

Over the last 24 hours we have spent much time analysing and discussing the future of the Party. But I just want to say a thank you to Ken.

For those who are interested, I'll be on Sky News tonight and on the Sky website from 7.30pm to 10pm, providing live commentary on the Mayoral debate.

I'll be joined by some Liberal and by Tory bloggerIain Dale

There is some suspicion that Tory spokesman Andrew Gilligan of the Evening Standard will also be there.

This is Ken's new online message, launched exclusively on Labourhome before any other website (except Youtube of course!).

Next week I'll be recording a video interview with Ken. Leave your questions here or email them to me at alexhilton@gmail.com

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.

Click here to vote for the best London Labour election videos on YouTube.

Some of them are just pant-wettingly funny

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

On Wednesday Ken Livingstone ended a powerful speech to Labour trade unionists by speculating whether the “Standard” (aka the “Evening Boris”) would ever print any of the truth about Ken and the Labour Assembly members during the current campaign.

Of course everyone laughed at the prospect of the “Standard” accurately reporting the significant reduction in crime in London.

The event was organised by TULO and held in the historic old Town Hall in Stratford, East London.

Ken Livingstone has now announced that from 27 October cars with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, such as some so-called ‘Chelsea tractors’, will pay a daily charge of £25 to drive in the central London Congestion Charge Zone. Ken’s announcement, was made at his weekly City Hall press conference, where he was joined by Tony Juniper from Friends of the Earth, who said that ‘Charging gas-guzzling vehicles more to drive in central London is extremely welcome and supported by most Londoners.’ Read more at Gas guzzlers - Ken gives the go-ahead for world leading scheme

Boris has reacted to Black leaders’ criticism in the New Nation newspaper of his use of language by printing a statement on his website.

The Daily Record has been forced to apologise after George said in his column for the paper that JP had once described striking firemen as "the enemy within." Absolute rubbish.

Boris Johnson has popped up again after his period of silence, and you have to wonder whether the Tories wish he’d kept quiet a bit longer.

Boris tells PinkNews he's pro-gay, voted for civil partnerships and comes close to endorsing polygamy

On the date of the general election, much depends on the character of the Prime Minister. Is he really as cautious as we think he is? However, it's certain that his team will be updating him regularly on the pros and cons of various general election dates. My analysis is below - please post your thoughts.

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.

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=15278&grp=66&cat=442

According to this article in Blink, Boris Johnson is in fact a racist, Xenophobic, tory toff.(This was already known to us of course).