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Londons mayoral race was electrified in its last 48 hours by a final poll showing Sadiq Khans lead over Susan Hall closing to the smallest since their campaigns started.
The Savanta survey for the Centre for London put the Labour mayor on 42 per cent and Tory candidate 32 per cent.
The gap of ten percentage points is down from 13 points in a Savanta poll published last week.
Chris Hopkins, political research director at Savanta said: Our final poll before Londoners choose their next Mayor suggests that the race has tightened in the last few days before polling day.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-mayoral-election-race-latest-poll-sadiq-khan-susan-hall-b1154884.html
Polybius
(15,578 posts)When is the election?
JCMach1
(27,593 posts)Brexit. When I visited a year ago, it was shocking to see how far things had fallen.
GenThePerservering
(1,925 posts)and have since 1999. Problems, yes, but things are ticking along despite everything.
I doubt London is going to want Liz Truss's mini-me in charge.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(222 posts)if you want the Labour viewpoint, see The Guardian. They haven't seemed especially worried. There was an editorial by Labour Party Leader Keir Stamer today, "Vote for my friend Sadiq Khan. Dont let toxic, incompetent Tory rule ruin our capital" (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/vote-for-my-friend-sadiq-khan-dont-let-toxic-incompetent-tory-rule-ruin-london). BTW, the LibDems (closest thing to most U.S. Democrats) are a nonentity in this election, as are the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (sadly).
muriel_volestrangler
(101,446 posts)"we still predict a broadly comfortable victory for Khan over Hall". The Standard just wanted a headline out of it.
RandySF
(60,222 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,446 posts)I expect the turnout will be a little higher this year, with more high profile mayoral elections as well, and maybe since the media is talking about it a bit more since there has to be a general election in under a year. So I expect there will be some more people turned away.
The unfair thing (for Tory advantage?) is that old age photo IDs are accepted, but student photo IDs aren't (and it's not that uncommon for young people to not have yet got a driving licence, and some won't have a passport either (which costs money, so if you're not planning to go abroad you might not have one)). There were ways of getting an accepted ID specifically for voting, but that meant planning ahead.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,446 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections
But not sorry about young people not being able to use their travel passes.
A Tory MP, Tom Hunt, had apparently "mislaid" his form(s) of identification, which he blames on his dyspraxia (body coordination difficulties). I'm not sure if he's saying he thinks he dropped his driving licence or passport somewhere recently, or what, but he's pissed off that people are taking the piss.
Celerity
(43,933 posts)https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/sadiq-khan-susan-hall-london-mayoral-election-labour-city-hall-b1154976.html
also
you said this
Fuck the Lib Dems
those bastards propped up Cameron and the fucking Tories and helped bring in their austerity regime for 5 years and also they ran on a 'lets have a vote to leave the EU' platform years before the actual referendum threw a monstrous spanner in our works
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hold a joint press conference in the garden of Downing Street. 12 May 2010, Crown copyright.
from 2008:
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(222 posts)"fuck the LibDems," well except their position on Brexit which seems uncharacteristically spot-on (but then, so is that of the SNP), but I was referring to the political spectrum. Sorry if I was unclear. The closest thing the Democrats have to Labour is the DSA, who are to the right of Labour. And yeah I know that the chatter in the International is that Labour itself has moved too far to the right, but that's not my fight.
Celerity
(43,933 posts)I personally find myself betwixt and between the third way projections of the post Blairites and the too overt on too many occasions socialism of the Corbynites.
My being (besides being a British and an American citizen) a Swedish citizen allows me to vote for a Party (Social Democrats) that is fairly close to own ideological make-up (other than a couple issues, but there is no such thing as a perfect party, lolol).
Emrys
(7,293 posts)Another headline looking for a story.
Takket
(21,756 posts)If you has a 13 run lead in a baseball game and the other team scored three you would not be worried about losing
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