Boris Johnson is on course to win the London mayoral election and run the capital in the four years of preparation before it hosts the next Games. Ken Livingstone, who lays claim to a share of the credit in helping London to secure the 2012 Olympics, looks likely to be among those watching and wondering how he lost.
The race is far from over but in Downing Street there is a weary anticipation that the incumbent will lose. “We know all the press cares about is London,” a close ally of Gordon Brown said last week of the local and mayoral elections on May 1. “And we know either we are going to lose or, at best, it is going to be very tight.”
To lose Scotland was careless; to lose Scotland and London would be unforgiveable. And what is it that McConnell and Livingstone have in common? Gordon Brown doesn't care for either.
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