More Up Than Down... ; the Londoner's Diary

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THE Mayor turned up at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road last night for the launch party of his biography, Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone, by Andrew Hosken. "I gave Andrew Hosken 30 hours of time for interviews because I felt it was part of the accountability process," Livingstone told me. "I think it was a fair account given Andrew's political stance." Livingstone was bullish about his prospects of re-election despite the opinion polls. "I predict I will win by three or four points," he told me. "Roughly 52 per cent to 48 per cent. I don't think the second preferences will make much odds.

They will cancel themselves out. The BNP voting for Boris, the Greens voting for me. The Lib-Dems split. The coverage by Andrew Gilligan in your paper was damaging and at the end of March I was behind. But the TV debates have been pulling me back.

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