Evening Standard - Mayor

Boris Johnson pledges to slash council tax every year

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:16:33 GMT

Boris Johnson will cut council tax every year if he is re-elected as Mayor, the Standard can reveal

Ken's friends in the East

Stephen Robinson — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:33:42 GMT

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports

Greens and Ukip could test Paddick in fight for mayor poll third place

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:37:30 GMT

Brian Paddick could struggle even to finish third in this year's mayoral election, as smaller parties look set to capitalise on Lib-Dem woes in national opinion polls

'Non, nein, no!' Boris reacts to new EU financial transaction tax

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:24:20 GMT

Boris Johnson today launched an attack on nine EU states that have called for the introduction of a new financial transactions tax

City hall rivals to go head-to-head in debate

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:10:37 GMT

Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone will go head-to-head for the first time in this year's election battle later this month

The final reckoning: how Boris and Ken measure up in election battle

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:30:31 GMT

London goes to the polls on May 3 with the election battle between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone set to be the capital's closest mayoral contest yet

Londoners urged to get out and vote in neck-and-neck contest

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:19:32 GMT

Poll results: Every Londoner has been urged to register to vote in the mayoral election on May 3 to take the turnout above 50 per cent

Boris takes lead in closest ever race for City Hall

Joe Murphy, Political Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:09:40 GMT

Exclusive poll: Boris Johnson has clawed his way back to a two-point lead in the closest mayoral race yet despite Ken Livingstone's hugely popular pledge to cut fares

Stars' trainer gets Boris fit for Olympics

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:37:05 GMT

Boris Johnson has been working with a personal trainer to lose weight before the Olympics and "lead from the front" in his bid to encourage people to take up sport

Boris bid to run every rail service in London

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:03:28 GMT

Boris Johnson made a bid to take over every rail service in London in a move described as the biggest shake-up since privatisation

Boris misses his 100,000 electric car target... by 98,000

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:07:26 GMT

Boris Johnson was criticised today as it was revealed his target of 100,000 electric vehicles on the streets of London could take "centuries" to achieve

Schools in Olympic tickets windfall

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:49:41 GMT

Thousands of schools across the capital find out how many free tickets they are to receive for the Olympic and Paralympic Games

I'll pay for fares cut with £300m surplus, says Ken

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:10:00 GMT

Ken Livingstone says his pledge to slash fares is "affordable and necessary" when he said that Transport for London made more than £300 million in the last nine months

Labour's Lammy hints at City Hall bid

Michael Howie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:04:58 GMT

David Lammy hinted that he wants to run for mayor of London as he attacked the state of the Labour Party

Boris cuts City Hall's share of council tax to trump Ken's fares pledge

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:50:56 GMT

Boris Johnson cut his share of council tax for the first time in a move that he claimed was a break from the 'contempt for London taxpayers' shown by his rival Ken Livingstone

Move to London, Boris tells Paris banks

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:03:28 GMT

Boris Johnson and David Cameron urged French bankers to quit Paris and move to London in a dramatic escalation of a row with the French president

I'll slash fares this year or quit City Hall, pledges Ken Livingstone

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:33:57 GMT

Ken Livingstone has vowed to resign if he does not slash transport fares by October 7 if elected Mayor

Boris turning to dark side, says Ken as fares battle gets abusive

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:08:23 GMT

Ken Livingstone today accused Boris Johnson of turning to "the dark side" in their battle over fares as the fight for City Hall became increasingly bitter

Hammersmith flyover? The solution could be to dig a tunnel, says Boris

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:19:44 GMT

The Hammersmith flyover could be replaced by a tunnel when it is finally pulled down, says Boris Johnson

You can't trust Ken, warns Boris as he labels fares cut pledge 'a lie'

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:41:12 GMT

Boris Johnson stepped up his attack on mayoral rival Ken Livingstone's pledge to slash Tube and bus fares, calling it 'a lie'

Ken's promise to slash public transport fares is fraudulent, says Boris

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:26:37 GMT

Boris Johnson has accused Ken Livingstone of making "fraudulent" promises to slash bus and Tube fares if he is elected mayor

Ken v Boris election fight on a knife edge with 100 days to go

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:54:59 GMT

Exclusive poll: Ken Livingstone now has a two-point lead over Boris Johnson in the race to be the next Mayor of London, an exclusive new survey reveals

Ken to take back rail control if elected

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:20:27 GMT

Ken Livingstone will attempt to wrest control of outer London's rail services from the train companies if elected mayor

Boris and Ken in angry clash over 'workshy' jobless

Nicholas Cecil and Craig Woodhouse — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:34:40 GMT

Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone were engulfed in a war of words today over whether Londoners are too 'lazy' to find work

I've dealt with bigger beasts than Boris and Ken, says rival

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:19:17 GMT

A mother who quit her high flying Civil Service job to run for mayor today said she is not afraid of taking the fight to her rivals because she is used to 'bigger beasts than Ken and Boris'