On the stump with Boris and Ken
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on the Lomdon mayoral elections.
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Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on the Lomdon mayoral elections.
As the bitter battle for London’s City Hall rumbles on, Ken Livingstone threw in an old claim about affordable housing. But was it a good one? Team Boris didn’t think so. Pinging an email through to FactCheck, Boris’ camp labelled Mr Livingstone’s statement as a “false claim”. They added: “The London Development Database reports that there were actually 2,240 affordable starts over the same six month figures (April and September 2011)”. Who’s right? FactCheck homes in.
Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson clash furiously on a radio show about their tax arrangements, after which Mr Johnson tells Mr Livingstone that accusations levelled at him are “all f****** lies”.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks why Labour chose Ken for the London Mayor race?
Can Ken Livingstone bring back the EMA? FactCheck gets out its red pen.
“We’re happy to provide the figures for excess journey time that include industrial action, since Ken’s team insist. They show that the measure was still significantly better on average under Boris, even though he had more strikes to contend with.”
“The most dramatic difference was in lost passenger hours – a million a month more, on average, under Ken than under Boris.”
Ken Livingstone will face Boris Johnson in the 2012 election to be London mayor after overwhelmingly winning the Labour party candidacy.
Former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is to contact police to ask whether his phone was hacked be journalists, after Channel 4 News learns he was a victim of a “blag” by a private investigator.
A continuing row about Mr Livingstone’s membership of the party has followed a disciplinary panel that stopped short of expelling him. That led the writer and comedian David Baddiel to post on Facebook setting out just why he believes Ken Livingstone’s comments are wrong.
Boris Johnson beats Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral election, with the defeated Labour candidate conceding “this is my last election”. Jenny Jones finishes third for the Greens.
Boris Johnson looks set to beat his rival Ken Livingstone for a second time in the London mayoral battle, as council seats are decided around the UK.
Ken Livingstone became tearful this week at the broadcast of his mayoral election video. Channel 4 News looks at some other notable public blubs.
London mayor Boris Johnson announces he wants to run for a second term as London mayor, potentially setting up a re-run of 2008’s contest with Ken Livingstone.
The Labour party finds itself in the middle of a row over antisemitism – in the week when the party will change rules to explicitly forbid antisemitism. FactCheck investigates.