London Mayor election update
- Sleaze allegations latest: Lee Jasper (aide to Ken Livingstone) admits £18,000 was improperly diverted. Police now investigating…
- … and as Lynne Featherstone points out, that makes five police investigations into allegations of financial misdeeds at City Hall and the London Development Agency (LDA). As Lynne says, once again there are also question marks over whether their press operation has been telling the full story.
- Political Betting casts reasonable doubt on the last YouGov Mayor poll (which put Brian Paddick on 8%, +1%): the sample size was just 240, which makes the margin of error +/- 6.5% – a very high figure. (This is the margin of error for the random sampling process; in addition there are other causes of error, such as a systematic bias in who is asked to take part in a poll.)
- No-one has yet guessed the correct answer in my Boris Johnson tea cups competition. There is still time for you to beat the field.
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