The Guardian scored a bit of a coup this week, with three candidates for Mayor – including me – getting out their laptops over the weekend to take part in what can only be described as a stonking row on the Comment is Free website.
It all started when Ken Livingstone published a piece pointing out the uncanny similarities between Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick in the area of transport policy, and denouncing Paddick for announcing a policy to privatise the tube, something he called a “sharp change in Liberal Democrat policy in London”.
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