Candidates in final pitch to London voters
BORIS Johnson and Ken Livingstone yesterday made their final appeals to voters as today’s mayoral election remains too close to call.
Livingstone has fought his way back into the race and the most recent YouGov poll placed him just four percentage points behind Conservative Boris Johnson.
Privately neither side is confident of victory and both expect the level of turnout and enthusiasm amongst core supporters to be the decisive factor.
In the final few days Livingstone has concentrated on associating the current mayor with the unpopular Conservative-led government. Last night he said: “The David Cameron-Boris Johnson love-in clarifies the very serious stakes for Londoners. It is two Tory peas in a pod. The Tory PM wants you to vote for the Tory mayor so that they can keep going with Tory policies that mean recession, fare rises and police cuts.”
Johnson said “every vote will count” before adding: “The choice today is simple; going forward with my plan to invest in the things that will create jobs and growth, or going back to Ken Livingstone who would put that investment at risk.”