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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 05/28/12 -- Earlier this month Londoner's voted and subsequently re-elected Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson, as their mayor. Johnson fended-off stern competition from Labour stalwart, Ken Livingstone, to ...  

Earlier this month Londoner's voted and subsequently re-elected Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson, as their mayor. Johnson fended-off stern competition from Labour stalwart, Ken Livingstone, to retain London's mayoralty. However, months before ...  

Returning from a wonderful wedding anniversary trip to Venice, it was a shock to find myself at the centre of a mini-media storm on the front page of Monday's Guardian. Sadly, though, it was not even the slightest surprise to read that Boris Johnson's spin ...  

London Mayor Boris Johnson sparred with former World Super Middleweight Champion Richie Woodhall, during a visit to the Team TKO scheme in Merton, south London. The organisation is designed to steer young people away from crime and anti-social ...  

A senior BBC political journalist has been appointed as London Mayor Boris Johnson's communications chief. Will Walden, the corporation's Westminster news editor, will bring "drive, originality and flair" to the post, Mr Johnson said. Mr Walden replaces ...  

How's this for a brazen piece of rebranding? On 20 April, with his re-election looming, Boris Johnson pledged to deliver on Shelter's campaign to create 'Homes for London'. Post-election, it has become crystal clear that Boris had no idea what measures he ...  

The former TV comic spoke coyly about his future just a year after be elected to the post. Burning ambition: Boris Johnson has hinted that he would like to be Prime Minister In an interview with the Evening Standard he referred to former Tory leadership ...  

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Commentators have loved the battle between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone to control London in recent years. Rarely has politics been so interesting in the UK. But has their titanic contest highlighted an issue beyond their own personalities?  

Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has appointed a senior BBC political journalist to be his new communications chief at city hall. Will Walden, the BBC's Westminster news editor, will replace Guto Harri, another former member of the BBC's political team ...  

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed a senior BBC journalist as his new communications chief. Johnson has said that he is “delighted” that Walden has taken to position. The post was vacant after Guto Harri, also a former BBC employee, left the ...  

Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has appointed a senior BBC political journalist to be his new communications chief at city hall. Will Walden, the BBC's Westminster news editor, will replace Guto Harri, another former member of the BBC's political team ...  

Boris Johnson went toe-to-toe with a Shropshire sporting hero yesterday – in a bid to keep youngsters out of trouble. Telford’s former world super-middleweight champion Richie Woodhall and London’s newly re-elected mayor exchanged jabs for ...  

Daily MailCyclists are to blame for fatal crashes, says Boris Johnson (who used to ride ...Daily MailBoris Johnson has been blasted by road safety campaigners after claiming two-thirds of cyclists killed or seriously injured in London caused the crashes by breaking the laws of the road. Mr Johnson told his first Mayor's Question Time cyclists were to ...Boris Johnson hires another BBC journalist as communications chiefThe GuardianBoris Johnson...  

Boris Johnson has appointed a senior BBC journalist, Will Walden, as his new director of communications. Mr Walden is news editor at the BBC's political unit at Westminster and played a key role in the 2010 BBC's general election coverage.  

London mayor Boris Johnson went toe-to-toe with the capital's teenagers when he exchanged jabs with youths at a police scheme to teach martial arts. The Team TKO course offers an introduction to karate, boxing, muay thai, taekwondo, judo, jiu jitsu and ...  

Upon graduating from Oxford, he spent only a week as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting: He then became a trainee reporter for The Times. Within a year he was sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later ...  

Will Walden joins the Mayor after directing the BBC's day-to-day coverage of political news, working closely with the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson. Walden will begin his new role in early July. Johnson said: ‘He will bring drive, originality and ...  

THE Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his support behind campaigners calling on Waitrose to reverse its decision to scrap plans to open in Sidcup. Mr Johnson has written to the managing director of Waitrose, Mark Price, expressing his desire to see ...  

Liberal Democrat newcomer Stephen Knight scored a good hit on Boris Johnson during the first City Hall of his second term on Wednesday. He was also given his first taste of the way Mayor Jolly Goodfun responds when members of the London Assembly - or ...  

THE Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his support behind campaigners calling on Waitrose to reverse its decision to scrap plans to open in Sidcup. Mr Johnson has written to the managing director of Waitrose, Mark Price, expressing his desire to see ...  

Mayor Boris Johnson has invited his ex-wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, to become a member of City Hall’s Muslim Engagement Task Force. The invitation came hours after winning his second term as Mayor after Mostyn-Owen got in touch to congratulate him on his victory.  

Mr Johnson spoke after the Tottenham MP David Lammy claimed Labour's 2004 decision to tighten up the smacking law was partly to blame for last summer's riots, which erupted in his north London constituency. Mr Lammy, a former education minister ...  

LONDON (REUTERS).-Plans to erect a floating walkway on London's River Thames, affording spectacular views of forgotten parts of the city, got a major boost on Friday by securing up to 60 million pounds ($97.5 million) in funding. London Mayor Boris Johnson ...  

The London Assembly has questioned Boris Johnson for the first time since his re-election. But anyone expecting a significant change of mood or even the odd surprise would have been disappointed. Normal service - or rather normal hostility - was quickly ...  

This week the hoardings will finally come down and the square, unveiled by London mayor Boris Johnson ... The locals dubbed it "Swindle Villas". He was never accused of criminal wrongdoing, but when the tide turned against him a year or so after his ...  

London mayor Boris Johnson has said the capital needs to “grasp the opportunities” the Olympic and Paralympic Games will present. He was speaking ahead of the official handover of the Olympic Flame in Greece tomorrow, which he will attend ...  

The re-match is over. After another seismic 'battle in the capital' Boris Johnson defeated Ken Livingstone and has returned to City Hall as London Mayor. Johnson's victory bucked the trend of defeats for Conservative councillors the length and breadth of ...  

London has seen a 31% increase in rough sleeping over the past two months compared with the same period last year, according to homeless charity Broadway. The Mayor has pledged to ensure nobody spends a second night on the streets by the end of the year, but the number of people spending a second night out increased 12% over the previous two month period. Before the recent London mayoral elections, Johnson made a pledge with homeless charity...  

London’s mayor praised a Merton Park school for being a “womb of talent” during a martial arts initiative launched by police. Boris Johnson joined Merton police’s borough commander at the Nuffield Health gym in Wimbledon, where he took part in a ...  

The Mayor of London has confirmed further appointments to the team set to deliver his key priorities including more jobs and economic growth in a cleaner, greener and healthier city (Tuesday 15 May). A key element of the Mayor's jobs and growth agenda is ...  

The Tories will hope for a better result in the capital, where Mayor Boris Johnson, pictured, is defying the national trend to remain favourite to retain City Hall.  

LONDON (Reuters) - Conservative Boris Johnson won a second term as London's mayor on Friday, beating opposition Labour rival Ken Livingstone and giving a boost to Prime Minister David Cameron's party after heavy losses in local elections.Related StoriesConservative Boris Johnson wins London mayoral raceLondon win eases Cameron's vote setbackYahoo in talks to sell 15 percent - 25 percent of Alibaba - sourceFrance's Sarkozy in vote appeal as...  

London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced that creating jobs and growth will be at the heart of his second term in office. He has pledged to create 200,000 jobs over his next 4 years by investing in housing and infrastructure. Johnson also plans to help ...  

Boris Johnson would have been attempting to pervert the course of justice if he knew police were actively investigating phone hacking when he described fresh allegations as "codswallop", it was claimed today. The London Mayor's deputy for policing ...  

Campaigners fighting plans to build an airport off the Kent coast have staged a protest outside City Hall in London. It follows Boris Johnson's restatement of his ambition - a week after his re-election as Mayor of London - to build a new airport in the ...  

The LA Galaxy midfielder, who was today announced as one of London 2012’s torch-bearers, will be joined on the show by London Mayor Boris Johnson and Lord Coe at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall as part of a special outside broadcast.  

Newly re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson has joked he won the race to represent the city despite the backing of Conservative leader David Cameron.The Tory candidate beat Labour choice Ken Livingstone in the mayoral battle this week, ensuring he will remain in the iconic position during the upcoming Olympic Games. Boris Johnson has joked that David Cameron's popularity did nothing to help his bid to return as London Mayor (PA...  

Boris Johnson has ruled out ever becoming prime minister and claims to have ‘no idea why people go on about it so much’. London Mayor Boris Johnson was re-elected for a second term last week, beating Labour rival Ken Livingstone (Picture: Reuters/Paul Hackett) Mr Johnson, who was re-elected mayor of London last Friday, also insists he won’t be running for a third term at City Hall, unlike his election rival Ken Livingstone.'I...  

8.30pm: Boris Johnson is expected to be named as the winner of the London mayoral elections soon and I'll be covering the result here. Earlier we were covering the mayoral and local election results on a separate live blog, but I'm afraid the ...  

Prime minister David Cameron said he was 'delighted' by Boris Johnson's victory in the London mayoral election, claiming the pair would work together for the good of the capital. David Cameron congratulates London mayor Boris Johnson on his re-election ...  

LONDON: London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson was re-elected late Friday in the city's Olympic year, taking 51.5 percent of the vote in a closely fought run-off with Labour rival Ken Livingstone.  

I don’t mind Boris Johnson. In fact, I voted for him as mayor of London, twice. But it has come to something when I agree with him about the euro. In his Telegraph column today he criticises the curious Cameron-Osborne-Balls consensus on which ...  

London Elects has just released this data of votes at ward level. • Ken Livingstone won two more wards than Boris Johnson, showing how tight it was • Brian Paddick didn't score above 12% in any ward in first preferences - and was beaten in ...  

Boris Johnson has said he will "work his socks off" as he was sworn in for his second term as London mayor. Conservative Mr Johnson beat Labour rival Ken Livingstone by 3%, after a far closer contest than expected. "I want to thank the people of ...  

The victory over Ken Livingstone after a profanity-laced campaign means that Boris Johnson will be the face of London as it welcomes millions of people to the Summer Olympics.LONDON — It's another gold medal for BoJo.  

Boris Johnson is expected to beat Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral election today, while elsewhere across England, Scotland and Wales, British voters are expected to turn against conservative candidates in local elections. Conservative ...  

8.49pm: Boris Johnson's press team are claiming victory, according to the BBC. 8.46pm: Bob Neill, the Conservative communities minister, told journalists in the press room at City Hall that a Boris Johnson victory would be good for London. A Boris victory ...  

An insight into Mayor Johnson's approach to tackling London's growing housing crisis can be gleaned from his record in his first term and his promises for his second. Between 2008 and 2012 he failed to deliver even one of a promised "network" of ...  

Thousands of WSPA supporters, including leading businesswoman Deborah Meaden are calling on London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to stamp out wildlife crime in the city. More than 11,000 WSPA supporters from around the country signed an open letter to Mr Johnson ...  

Chelsea Football Club’s plans to turn the Battersea Power Station site into a new 60,000-seater stadium may be derailed by Mayor Boris Johnson. Chelsea submitted plans to build a stadium on the site hours before Johnson was returned as mayor last week. The plans include the retention of the four famous chimneys, street-level retail shops, affordable housing and offices. However, the mayor is one of the people Chelsea will need to convince...  

A key former aide to Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has been appointed as head of News International's communications team to help the beleaguered media company restore its reputation in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal. The decision to appoint Guto ...  

Recently re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson points out a few home truths to Barack Obama (my emphasis added): I see the G8 has a brilliant solution to the problems of the eurozone. President Obama says it’s time for “growth and jobs”. Jolly good. That’s the stuff. Let me show you how to create employment – the Brussels way.  Come with me through the streets of Athens, not far from Syntagma Square, and your mind will reel with the...  

Guto Harri has never been one to duck a difficult challenge. The former BBC journalist has begun work as director of communications for Rupert Murdoch's embattled News International. But if anyone is surprised that the man who masterminded ...  

Liberal Democrat Brian Paddick was beaten to third place by Green candidate Jenny Jones, while Independent Siobhan Benita was close behind him in fifth. Mr Johnson said he would continue to "fight for a good deal for Londoners". Mr Livingstone said "this ...  

Paddy Power have proclaimed Boris Johnson as the winner of the London Mayoral Election and have paid out all bets on the current Mayor being re-elected The London Mayoral Election takes place on Thursday May 3 but popular bookmaker Paddy Power have already ...  

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Boris Johnson has defeated Ken Livingstone to hold on to his position as Mayor of London in a closer than expected election.The Conservative incumbent secured 971,931 votes (44.01 per cent) in the first round, compared to Mr Livingstone's 889,918 (40.3 per cent), but the figure was well short of the half share needed for outright victory. Boris Johnson secured a second term as Mayor of London (Getty Images) Second preference...  

Victorious Boris Johnson thanked Londoners for their votes, his wife for her support and paid a cheeky tribute to Ken Livingstone who staged a late fightback to narrow the margin of victory to just 62,000 votes.  

A spokeswoman for Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone said the revelations raised "serious questions" and Mr Johnson needed "to open the books and publish all the email and other contact between him, News International and the Murdochs".  

London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson was re-elected on Friday, taking 51.5 percent of the vote in a closely fought run-off with Labour rival Ken Livingstone. "I will continue to fight for a good deal for Londoners," Johnson said in a victory speech at ...  

London Mayor Boris Johnson looked at securing commercial deals with News International - at the same time that the Metropolitan Police were investigating the company over phone hacking, BBC London has learned. Mr Johnson, Conservative candidate in the ...  

Boris Johnson is primed for another four years as London mayor, with voting returns indicating he is on course to beat his Labour rival, Ken Livingstone, in their hard-fought rematch. Although election organiser London Elects is not releasing precise ...  

Boris Johnson appeared on course to win another four-year term as London mayor as voting returns indicated he had beaten his Labour rival, Ken Livingstone, in a tightly fought race. Some predicted that Johnson's expected win over Livingstone, on ...  

Given the way Mick Jagger got cross when people found out he was planning to meet David Cameron a few weeks back, he probably won't be thrilled at his fawning over the mayoral punchline, revealed in the Telegraph:Sir Mick, whose hits include (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, retains his affection for Boris Johnson, though. “I got an email message from Sir Mick Jagger congratulating me on winning the mayoral race,” says Johnson. “It is not...  

Mayor of London Boris Johnson says he stands by his comments that the Elephant & Castle roundabout is "fine" for cyclists. Last November the Mayor told the London Assembly that "if you keep your wits about you, Elephant & Castle is perfectly negotiable" on a bike.  

Incumbent London Mayor Boris Johnson promised the Muslim community present at London’s Central Mosque on April 26 that he will increase engagement with them if he is re-elected. He was speaking to the invited imams and representatives of London mosques.  

LONDON, May 5 (UPI) -- Boris Johnson won a second term Friday as mayor of London, defeating former Mayor Ken Livingstone by 3 percentage points. The count from Thursday's voting was a lengthy process because the second choices of voters who ...  

Upon graduating from Oxford, he spent only a week as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting: He then became a trainee reporter for The Times. Within a year he was sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later ...  

THE next boss of the “statist, corporatist, defeatist” BBC must be a Tory, according to Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The outspoken politician described the organisation as “statist, corporatist and defeatist” and said the guarantee of funding ...  

Blackfriars Underground station, shut for nearly three years, finally reopened today after a spectacular redevelopment. Closed in March 2009, Blackfriars tube station now has entrances both north and south of the River Thames. Able to accommodate up to 60 ...  

The BBC is "overwhelmingly biased to the Left" and should be run by a Conservative, Boris Johnson has said. Writing in his Daily Telegraph column on Monday, the Mayor of London said the broadcaster's next boss should be someone who was "free-market" and ...  

The BBC is "overwhelmingly biased to the Left" and should be run by a Conservative, Boris Johnson has said. Writing in his Daily Telegraph column on Monday, the Mayor of London said the broadcaster's next boss should be someone who was "free-market" and ...  

Boris Johnson has a narrow lead in the race for City Hall, after the first results in the London mayoral race. London Elects' website has been showing the progress of counts, with Mr Johnson ahead throughout as different boroughs' votes were ...  

Mayor of London Boris Johnson compares the flotilla that will sail up the Thames for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 - although the event is expected to be somewhat more cheerful.  

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The re-elected London mayor, Boris Johnson, has been urged to push for a high-speed rail link to Scotland. Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown has written to Mr Johnson, and all the newly-elected council chiefs in the north of England.  

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. The Mayor was tackling questions on claims he bid to get sponsorship cash from News International during investigations into phone hacking at the organisation. Mayor Johnson ...  

London mayor calls BBC 'statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and overwhelmingly biased to the left'The next boss of the BBC must be a Tory, according to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said the guarantee of funding from the licence fee left BBC staff with "an innocent belief that everything in life should be 'free'".He said: "No wonder – and I speak as one who has just fought a...  

Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is "delighted" with Boris Johnson's re-election as London mayor. He said the Conservative candidate fought "a very strong campaign", and "now what matters is working together for the good of London".  

Ken Livingstone, the man who led the London 2012 Olympic bid back in 2005, will get to the Games after all. The man who beat him for the second time in the race to become Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has extended an invitation to Livingstone ...  

The London mayor, Boris Johnson, resisted attempts by the previous Labour government to make him clean up dangerous air pollution in London, according to ministerial briefing papers released under the Freedom of Information Act. The papers, obtained by the ...  

MOPTOP Tory toff Boris Johnson held on to his Mayor of London job and then pledged he would not run for Prime Minister. The blond buffoon celebrated yesterday after he narrowly beat fierce ­Labour ­rival Ken Livingstone in the capital’s mayoral election.  

London mayor Boris Johnson ... "Boris’s messy hair, the rumpled suits, the offbeat, high-brow humour and the cycling passion were a positive." Photo: AP Much has been written about the winning London mayoralty campaign for Boris Johnson, a campaign ...  

Boris Johnson was re-elected as Mayor of London in a surprisingly narrow victory that saw him beat rival Ken Livingstone. The Conservative polled 1,054,811 to the Labour candidate's 992,273 following a deeply personal and bitter campaign battle that saw ...  

As you can read in my piece for today’s paper, the Tories really did fear that they had lost at one point during the mayoral count on Friday. As Lynton Crosby, Boris Johnson’s campaign supremo, put it at 7.20pm: “I think we could just go ...  

Incumbent mayor Boris Johnson, the conservative (a.k.a. Tory), has been reelected to lead the city of London, one of the word’s leading financial and cultural centers, for another four-year term. In a rematch, Boris Johnson again defeated ...  

The Mayor of London has told LBC 97.3 he can't be certain the Thames cable car will be finished in time for the Olympics. Passengers will ride 90 metres above the Thames, taking them from from the O2 Arena in Greenwich to the Royal Docks on the other side ...  

Boris Johnson will serve another four years as London mayor after winning a dramatic election battle with Labour rival Ken Livingstone. The result was finally announced a few minutes before midnight after delays caused by faulty counting machines in Brent ...  

The unhealthy level of contact between News International and Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser and figures showing we have fallen back into recession, have made April one of the cruellest months for the Coalition.  

Fresh from his election victory, London Mayor Boris Johnson has rejigged his top team with a view to accelerating the rollout of green initiatives across the capital. Johnson was attacked by his opponents during the mayoral race for failing to adequately ...  

London’s conservative Mayor Boris Johnson won a second term on Friday, giving Britain’s Conservative Party a lift amid a barrage of defeats for it and its ruling coalition partner the Liberal Democrats in local elections across the country.  

Britain is set for a "a summer like no other," London mayor Boris Johnson predicted ahead of the official handover of the Olympic Flame. London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, the Princess Royal and and Olympics minister Hugh Robertson, head up a delegation which ...  

Britain is set for a "a summer like no other," London mayor Boris Johnson predicted ahead of the official handover of the Olympic Flame. London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, the Princess Royal and and Olympics minister Hugh Robertson, head up a delegation which ...  

The Queen will be treated to “the biggest such flotilla for 350 years” as the nation shows its thanks for her 60 years of service, he added. Speaking as the final details of the central event of the Jubilee bank holiday weekend were announced, Mr ...  

The Mayor of London insists the corporation, which is funded by the taxpayer, must be run by someone who is “free-market” and “pro-business”. Mr Johnson says the new appointment should know about “the work ethic, and cutting costs”. Writing in ...  

LONDON (AP) — London's comic and outspoken mayor Boris Johnson won re-election Friday ... was a bright spot on a rough day for his colleagues in Prime Minister David Cameron's governing Conservative Party, who took a drubbing in local elections.  

The results will add to the woes of the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, but were personally disappointing ... blitzing the outer London ring by focusing on boroughs such as Croydon, Bromley, Bexley, Havering and Hillingdon, the tactic did not fully succeed ...  

Boris Johnson's narrow re-election as London's executive mayor is a shiny consolation for a Conservative party battered in elections elsewhere, but a glum result for London and for the institution of London mayor itself. In 2008 Johnson inherited good ...  

LONDON - (AP) -- London's rumpled, comic and often outright offensive Boris Johnson has been declared the winner of a surprisingly close mayoral race in the British capital. The election results confirmed late Friday install Johnson, a ...  

The Times has a new Populus poll of the London mayoral election, which gives Boris Johnson his biggest lead so far. The first round figures are JOHNSON 46%, LIVINGSTONE 34%, JONES 6%, PADDICK 5%, BENITA 5%, WEBB 3%, CORTIGLIA 1%. … Continue reading →  

“We need a Tory and no mucking around. If we can’t change the Beeb, we can’t change the country.” Safely re-elected London Mayor, Deep Blue Boris Johnson, wasted no time dropping that deceitful Crikey! Con Act to demand a political ally is ...  

Documents show NI discussed providing millions of pounds for academy and cable car during phone-hacking investigationFresh details of how News International (NI) apparently sought goodwill by dangling two offers of sponsorship in front of the London mayor, Boris Johnson, are contained in evidence published by the Leveson inquiry.Rupert Murdoch has admitted in Leveson testimony that executives at the company were at the time - throughout 2010...  

Shadow Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, who chaired Mr Livingstone’s campaign, said there had been an assumption based on opinion polls that the Tory candidate would “walk away with it”. She said the closeness of the campaign reflected a national lack ...  

The mayor said the Jubilee pageant would not only be celebrating ... fishing vessels crossed the channel to rescue soldiers from the beaches of Normandy, Mr Johnson said. The difference being that this aquatic spectacle would be both “more successful ...  

Jubilee Pageant on River Thames to be "like Dunkirk but more cheerful", as London Mayor promises biggest flotilla for 350 years.Related StoriesDiamond Jubilee: Queen to make nostalgic trip aboard Royal Yacht Britannia's tender during River PageantDiamond Jubilee: Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent to lead River Pageant in royal rowbarge Gloriana  

Boris Johnson has been re-elected Mayor of London, sources said ahead of the official announcement. Related Stories'Red Ken' finally reaches the end of the lineHague brands Argentina's Falkland advert a 'sad stunt'Sorrell apologises for 'unacceptable' adBoris Johnson passes the winning post – but it was no easy ride to victoryLabour takes power across country – and Miliband tightens grip on party  

LONDON (AP) - London's comic and outspoken mayor Boris Johnson won re-election on Friday, triumphing in a closer-than-expected vote to secure a second term. His status as the unvarnished and unpredictable host of the 2012 Olympics Johnson's victory, in ...  

Out go HS2 and Lords reform – and the PM is even ready to shelve gay marriage plans First Post LAST UPDATED AT 09:53 ON Sun 6 May 2012 AFTER SUFFERING crushing losses in Thursday's local elections, David Cameron has gone back to the drawing board, revising the Queen's Speech at the last minute as his own party urges him to learn lessons from London's re-elected mayor, Boris Johnson. According to the...  

Their candidate, Lawrence Webb, was billed only as "Fresh Choice For London ... tnewtondunn : The Sun's pollster Peter Kellner of YouGov calls it - "Boris has won. He has too big a lead for Ken to overturn". Share this: Ken-supporting constituencies ...  

The Conservative mayoral incumbent Boris Johnson has bucked a national trend that yesterday witnessed a significant shift to the left and in doing so trumped the labour challenger, Ken Livingstone by 62,000 votes. In an election race that was labelled as more of a personality contest, Boris Johnson has secured a mandate for another four years at City Hall, [...]  

Boris Johnson turned down an invitation to be interviewed yesterday by the London section of the BBC's flagship Sunday Politics show, despite his only serious rival for the mayoralty Ken Livingstone appearing last week and Brian Paddick and Jenny Jones previously. Why? According to Kit Malthouse, Boris's deputy for policing, who substituted for the mayor, Boris couldn't make it because of a "long-standing engagement that he had to do this...  

"Boris has championed a cosmopolitan and compassionate Conservatism which he has combined with a bone-dry approach on the economy ... Boris built more affordable homes in four years than Ken Livingstone ever did. He has halved the number ...  

Final YouGov poll numbers have Boris Johnson beating Ken Livingstone in the run-off vote for mayor of London. The poll shows Johnson taking a six-point lead in the election, the same margin by which he won in 2008. According to the poll, Johnson pips ...  

MOPTOP Tory toff Boris Johnson held on to his Mayor of London job and then pledged he would not run for Prime Minister. The blond buffoon celebrated yesterday after he narrowly beat fierce ­Labour ­rival Ken Livingstone in the capital’s mayoral election.  

CLOSE to midnight last Friday after a few glitches with the counting process, Conservative Boris Johnson was finally announced as the winner of the mayoral election. The Tory was re-elected to the position he has held since 2008, beating nearest rival Ken ...  

Boris Johnson's election team are claiming that they have won the London Mayoral Election. They expect the result to come in about 20 minutes. David Cameron has apologised to Conservative councillors after the coalition took a battering in local ...  

Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson await the results of the 2008 mayoral election. Photograph: Getty Images Is the London mayoral race a done deal? A Populus/Times (£) poll this morning suggests it might be, giving Boris Johnson a 12 point lead over Ken Livingstone.  

When Ken Livingstone hit the headlines midway into the London mayoral election campaign after his lachrymose response to Labour's party election broadcast, Boris Johnson could not resist a joke against his "old chum" when they took part in hustings.  

David Cameron made an 11th-hour plea to potential Tory voters in London yesterday not to assume that the epic battle between two of the best-known names in British politics was already over. The pollsters and the bookies believe that Boris Johnson will ...  

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson, known simply as Boris to his ardent fans in Britain, seems all but certain to reclaim his post in the mayoral election scheduled for Thursday. But the enthusiasm Johnson inspires is only partly related to the ...  

When news was leaked to The Sun earlier this year that Sir Mick Jagger was due to meet David Cameron at the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Rolling Stones singer was so angry that he cancelled the rendezvous. Sir Mick, whose hits include (I Can’t Get ...  

The Green party won third place in the 2012 London mayoral elections, but it now has higher ambitionsDoing better than the hapless Brian Paddick in the recent London mayoral elections isn't quite storming the Winter Palace, but let's not be too picky. On 3 May, the Greens got 4.48% of the vote to Paddick and the Lib Dems' 4.16% – which meant that while Green candidate Jenny Jones mustered around a tenth of the support given to Boris Johnson...  

Following criticism of Newham County Council’s attempt to relocate housing benefit tenants out of its area, London mayor, Boris Johnson has said he will not have "Kosovo-style social cleansing" of the poor in the capital. Johnson, who is seeking re ...  

Boris Johnson wins another four years today as Mayor of London, giving him a berth in City Hall until 2016. He announces in late 2014 that he wants to be an MP again, to give Londoners better representation in Parliament. He cites as precedent ...  

Labour's Ken Livingstone has joined fellow mayoral hopefuls in calling for a public inquiry into London's illegal air pollution levels, just days ahead of the 3 May elections. Green Party candidate Jenny Jones and independent hopeful Siobhan Benita last ...  

Victorious Boris Johnson thanked Londoners for their votes, his wife for her support and paid a cheeky tribute to Ken Livingstone who staged a late fightback to narrow the margin of victory to just 62,000 votes.  

Boris Johnson has won his second term as London mayor, defeating challenger Ken Livingstone in a battle that proved far closer than pollsters had anticipated. The loose-lipped incumbent, known for his bumbling as much as his politics ...  

Against the odds, what was expected to be an easy victory for the incumbent mayor of London, Boris Johnson, turned into a cliffhanger as his Labour rival and predecessor, Ken Livingstone, halved his first preference vote lead to 80,000 and ...  

Boris Johnson was re-elected as Mayor of London in a surprisingly narrow victory that saw him beat rival Ken Livingstone. The Conservative polled 1,054,811 (51.53%) to the Labour's candidate's 992,273 (48.47%) following a deeply personal and ...  

Conservative Boris Johnson won a second term as mayor of London, defeating Labour rival Ken Livingstone. After the second-preference votes from other candidates had been redistributed between the two men, Johnson took 1,054,811 votes to ...  

Heathrow at 'breaking' point as Border Force struggles to cope, leaked memos warn Thrifty Prince Charles battles with Camilla over thermostat Boris Johnson: Heathrow immigration meltdown gives 'terrible impression of UK' Ken Livingstone is right ...  

A TEENAGE chef has chosen a bizarre subject for a his leg tattoo – London Mayor Boris Johnson. Lewis Jolly, 19, said he chose to have the likeness of mayoral candidate Boris inked on his thigh because he was ‘patriotic’ and it was ‘something a bit ...  

As voters went to the polls yesterday, a final YouGov survey gave the capital’s boss a six-point lead over his rival. But there were some last-minute nerves among Boris’s team as a low turnout sparked fears that some Tory supporters may have thought he ...  

Tory favourite Mr Johnson defeated Labour’s Ken Livingstone ... Former ministerial aide Stewart Jackson said the PM was now “on notice that he does need to raise his game”. “He needs to concentrate on bread-and-butter issues like jobs and mortgages ...  

After a count thrown into chaos when two batches of ballot papers were put into storage without being counted, Boris narrowly beat Ken Livingstone, the Labour candidate, after second preference votes from the five losing candidates were taken into account.  

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Whatever result is announced tonight, Boris Johnson has already emerged as the champion of a new strain of British Conservatism. London is now a Labour city, and yesterday’s election ought to have been a walkover for its candidate, Ken Livingstone.  

Google Analytics, a service that helps digital advertisers track web trends, shows that last week there were almost five times more searches for “Boris Johnson” than for “Ken Livingstone” via google.co.uk. Britons looked up the Conservative ...  

London's Mayor Boris Johnson allegedly continued his negotiations with News Corp even as Scotland Yard was investigating the organization's phone hackings, BBC News reported. Mayor Johnson was looking to Rupert Murdoch and News International to sponsor a ...  

A former senior official has condemned the London mayor's administration over its attempts to prevent young black men becoming involved in violence. Ron Belgrave said the approach was "superficial, unserious and seeking to do as little as possible".  

Boris Johnson is on course to secure a second term as Mayor London, according to a poll published on Thursday. A survey conduced by YouGov for the Evening Standard shows Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone by 53-47% - the same margin by which he won four ...  

LONDON: London's rumpled, comic and outspoken Boris Johnson has won a second term as mayor of the British capital, triumphing in a surprisingly close election that installs the unvarnished and unpredictable Conservative as host of the 2012 Olympics.  

London – London’s rumpled, comic and often outright offensive Boris Johnson has been declared the winner of a surprisingly close mayoral race in the British capital. The election results confirmed late Friday install Johnson, a Conservative, as the unpredictable host of the upcoming 2012 Olympics. Known best for his shock of blond hair, and sometimes [...]  

Mayor Boris Johnson is celebrating his re-election but he can expect some heavy flak coming his way from London Assembly members throughout his next term. The Conservative candidate edged past Labour's Ken Livingstone in last Friday's vote for the...  

Ken Livingstone is right. When Jonathan Freedland announced he could no longer endorse Labour’s mayoral candidate because of his assertion that the Jewish community would not support him because of their wealth, Livingstone responded in a ...  

Boris Johnson used some colourful language to describe BBC reporter Tim Donovan. Blue Monday: Ken Livingstone launches his new ad campaign to show the Tories are ‘on a different planet’ (Picture: Reuters) In a rant that was sure to please rival Ken Livingstone – whose latest  advertising campaign portrays the mayor as a blue alien – Mr Johnson attacked the channel’s political editor Tim Donovan, branding his take on the News...  

The London mayor's extraordinary attack on the national broadcaster both feeds his Tory grassroots support and reveals his dislike of proper scrutiny. This, of course, is as things should be in a freedom-loving democracy. And what a poor show it is that a ...  

As London prepares to go to the polls to elect its next mayor on Thursday, BusinessGreen caught up with incumbent mayor Boris Johnson via email, who is determined to hold the mayoralty for another four years. Johnson has faced constant criticism from green ...  

DAVID CAMERON yesterday welcomed Boris Johnson’s re-election as London mayor – honestly. As bookies predicted Bojo will take the Prime Minister’s job, Cameron looked less than jubilant as he congratulated the re-elected Mayor of London. Johnson won a ...  

David Lammy is next in the betting at 16/1 while Lord Coe is just a 25/1 chance. The bookies are also less keen to underestimate independent candidate Siobhan Benita quoting her at just 50/1 in comparison to the 1000/1 she started off at last time.  

Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has said he is looking forward to working with Boris Johnson during his second term as mayor. He said it was important for the mayor to ensure "as many officers out on the street" but warned "money is tight".  

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Cyclists are being killed on the streets of London as a direct result of Boris Johnson's transport policies, Lib Dem mayoral candidate Brian Paddick has claimed. Speaking during the Sky News mayoral debate on Thursday evening, Paddick said the Mayor had ...  

Telegraph.co.ukBoris Johnson: Heathrow immigration meltdown gives 'terrible impression of UK'Telegraph.co.ukLondon Mayor Boris Johnson has written to Home Secretary Theresa May to express his "serious concern" about immigration problems at Heathrow. By David Millward, Transport Editor He said the difficulties at Heathrow gave "a terrible impression of the ...Heathrow told to stop apologising for queuesAFPImmigration chiefs recruit retired...  

Mayor Johnson's first post re-election moves underline in deepest ... complementing the existing mayoral powers over transport. What does Boris's big picture view of London look like? As we know, he is committed to continuous inflation-plus rises in ...  

Forget the baggy silk shorts with the dragon motif on the front; what sportswear the Mayor of London chooses for his morning jog should be no concern of ours. What is more intriguing is the mismatched socks: one dark, the other pale. When I saw that photo ...  

Consider for a moment the improbable parallels between the newly re-elected mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Toronto’s scandal-embroiled leader, Rob Ford. Both are outspoken, gaffe-prone conservatives with a clownish fallibility that is as ...  

A look inside the campaign headquarters for London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson who is bidding to retain his current job on Thursday. Adam Fleming looked back over the week of the campaign and his relations with BBC journalists.  

David Cameron could learn a thing or two from bumbling, fumbling Boris. Super-polished DC may know how to talk the talk and say the right thing but his sleek speeches aren’t winning favour with the voters. Boris’s win last week proved that the public ...  

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They included a power cut at Alexandra Palace as well as the reprocessing of two mislaid batches of ballot papers in the Brent and Harrow ... to build good council housing and introduce a free bus pass for pensioners. "Now I've lived long ...  

Quentin Crisp once defined charisma as the ability to influence without logic. Though there were many logical reasons to vote for Boris Johnson on Thursday, you can bet your last Olympic coupon that he was carried through the finishing tape by this elusive ...  

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Newly re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson has instructed Collyer Bristow to defend a libel claim relating to his election campaign. Bob Crow, the general secretary of the RMT Union, has filed a defamation claim after taking exception to Johnson’s ...  

David Cameron said he was "delighted" by Boris Johnson's mayoral victory and vowed the pair would work together for the good of London. The Prime Minister praised Mr Johnson for running a "very strong" campaign and said he had enjoyed backing his bid for ...  

Prime minister praises strong campaign of mayor, who vows to dedicate next term to helping Londoners hit by tough timesDavid Cameron has said he is delighted by Boris Johnson's victory, despite speculation the London mayor could mount a challenge to the Tory leadership.The prime minister praised Johnson for running a strong campaign and said he had enjoyed backing his campaign for re-election.The pair appeared together at City Hall after...  

Guto Harri, Boris Johnson’s ex- spin doctor, has accepted a lucrative job at News International. The former BBC journalist – who worked closely with the Tory London Mayor and helped mastermind his re-election – starts work today as communications ...  

Mr Davies said while Johnson had benefited from not being stifled by the coalition, his success showed that the voters still wanted traditional conservative policies. It comes as David Cameron warned that the Coalition risks being seen as a “bunch of ...  

Mr Davies said while Johnson had benefited from not being stifled by the coalition, his success showed that the voters still wanted traditional conservative policies. It comes as David Cameron warned that the Coalition risks being seen as a “bunch of ...  

London Mayor uses colourful language on TV but remains well ahead in the polls One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 12:08 ON Tue 1 May 2012 BORIS JOHNSON may be well ahead of Ken Livingstone in the opinion polls as the race to become London Mayor enters its final hours, but he still appears to be sensitive to media scrutiny - particularly about claims he sought to obtain sponsorship money from the Murdoch...  

BORIS Johnson appeared on course for victory in a hair-raising finish to the London mayoral race last night despite a dramatic last-gasp twist. Senior Tories were confident throughout most of the day that the incumbent had won a second four-year term.  

Mary Ann Sieghart has been writing about politics since the mid-1980s. After stints at the FT and Today newspaper, she joined The Economist in 1986 as Political Correspondent. In 1988, she moved to become Assistant Editor of The Times, where she spent 19 ...  

Boris Johnson clinched a narrow victory last night as the battle to become London Mayor reached a dramatic and chaotic finale. The Conservative incumbent saw off Ken Livingstone's bid to return to City Hall with a slim majority, beating his Labour challenger by 51.53 per cent to 48.47 per cent.Related Stories'Red Ken' finally reaches the end of the lineHague brands Argentina's Falkland advert a 'sad stunt'Sorrell apologises for 'unacceptable...  

Boris Johnson clinched a narrow victory last night as the battle to become London Mayor reached a dramatic and chaotic finale. The Conservative incumbent saw off Ken Livingstone's bid to return to City Hall with a slim majority, beating his Labour challenger by 51.53 per cent to 48.47 per cent.Related StoriesBoris Johnson crosses the finishing line – but it was no easy ride to victory'Red Ken' finally reaches the end of the lineHague brands...  

Re-elected mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced four appointments amid claims of "chaos". Kit Malthouse takes a new role of Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise. Reports suggested Stephen Greenhalgh would become Deputy Mayor for Policing, but in ...  

LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson's victory in the race to lead London through the Olympics raises expectations that he will one day cross the Thames from City Hall to Downing Street, but critics question whether he has what it takes to be Britain's prime minister.Related StoriesConservative Boris Johnson wins London mayoral raceLondon win eases Cameron's vote setbackYahoo in talks to sell 15 percent - 25 percent of Alibaba - sourceFrance's...  

Unlike Boris, however, for many Ken is synonymous with London. As the first elected London Mayor, he defined the role and championed the city. All who saw his response to 7/7 could see the deep hurt at his city being attacked. As Boris acknowledge of his ...  

Congratulations, @MayorofLondon! I look forward to seeing you again soon. David Cameron has apologised to Conservative councillors after the coalition took a battering in local elections. Labour has taken 800 seats and made a series of key gains ...  

However, Ms Dorries bridles against the charge she is anti-posh. A great fan of the re-elected London mayor Boris Johnson (an Eton-educated Oxford graduate like Mr Cameron), she says it is not a person’s school that matters but “what education turns you into”.  

London Mayor Boris Johnson narrowly won reelection on Friday, defeating ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone, who stirred controversy with remarks called anti-Semitic by the city’s Jewish leaders. Johnson, a Conservative, got 51.5% of the vote compared to ...  

Known best for his shock of blond hair, and sometimes shocking outbursts, Johnson's victory was a bright spot on a rough day for his colleagues in Prime Minister David Cameron's governing Conservative Party, who took a drubbing in local elections as voters ...  

Upon graduating from Oxford, he spent only a week as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting: He then became a trainee reporter for The Times. Within a year he was sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later ...  

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Boris Johnson was joined by the Prime Minister on the campaign trail this morning before being grilled by London mothers on the website mumsnet. Meanwhile his Labour rival Ken Livingstone has promised to extend the Croydon Tramlink if he's ...  

Our final London elections poll shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run-off vote for Mayor YouGov’s final London elections poll for the Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run-off vote for Mayor by 53-47 ...  

Newly re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced a string of appointments to his top team, as he pledged to put jobs and growth "at the heart" of his second term as mayor. Conservative Mr Johnson secured another four years at City Hall in last ...  

Newly re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced a string of appointments to his top team, as he pledged to put jobs and growth "at the heart" of his second term as mayor. Conservative Mr Johnson secured another four years at City Hall in last ...  

It was said in response to Labor Party campaigners when they asked London’s Jews if they would be voting for Ken Livingstone, Labor’s candidate for mayor of London, who lost his bid May 3 to the incumbent Tory, Boris Johnson. This sentiment is rarely ...  

Boris Johnson  dodged a humiliating nationwide defeat for Prime Minister David Cameron by winning London in local elections that saw voters angry at Britain's economic woes flock to opposition Labour and a right-wing anti-European fringe party.  

Conservative London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson visited Borough Market on Saturday afternoon as the City Hall election campaign enters its final phase. Mr Johnson was besieged by shoppers eager to have their photograph taken with the Mayor. "This ...  

AFTER a month of campaigning, claims and counter-claims, Croydon still has a Conservative London Assembly member and will continue to be governed by a Tory mayor. But, despite this and a depressingly low turnout, the opposition parties believe last week's ...  

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, which leads Britain's coalition ... which locked them in an awkward coalition government. Vernon Bogdanor, a political analyst at King's College London who previously taught Cameron at Oxford ...  

What seems to be a consistent winner is how likable the candidate is. In the race for London Mayor Boris Johnson has consistently charmed voters in contrast to his aggressive and combative opponent Ken Livingstone. While this style has worked for Ken in ...  

Boris Johnson's victory in the race to lead London through the Olympics raises expectations that he will one day cross the Thames from City Hall to Downing Street, but critics question whether he has what it takes to be Britain's prime minister. read more  

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MetroBoris Johnson promises jobs as he wins second term as Mayor of LondonMetroBoris Johnson has promised that job creation for young people in the capital will be his main focus after he won his second election campaign to become Mayor of London. The election was forced into a second round, after neither Mr Johnson nor Labour ...Ken Livingstone Has Fought His Last ElectionSky NewsBoris Johnson re-elected as London MayorTelegraph.co.ukLondon...  

Nearly 15,000 candidates across Britain are standing for election in 181 councils. Current London Mayor Boris Johnson and former mayor and candidate Ken Livingstone were out to cast their votes in local and mayoral elections in the capital. The pair are ...  

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