The Political Wire

New poll puts Livingstone 8 point ahead of Johnson

A poll carried out by IPSOS-MORI, commissioned by the trade union UNISON, this week, taking the 48 per cent who say they are ‘absolutely certain to vote’, shows the first preference results were 41% for Ken Livingstone, 40% for Boris Johnson, 14% for Brian Paddick, and 5% for Sian Berry – a one point lead for Ken Livingstone.

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Livingstone launches 20mph traffic plan

Ken Livingstone put road safety at the centre of his mayoral election campaign today, confirming his plans to introduce 20mph speed limits for all residential roads in London. Speaking at the annual conference of Roadpeace, the national charity for road-crash victims, Livingstone said the speed of traffic was the "fundamental cause" of road deaths..

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