Don't forget, in the low income and working class areas of London, Ken vote was up, big style. If a normal Labour politician had been Mayor, you would have seen a whopping thrashing in London.
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That's why I had a problem of people like Tessa Jowell and Harriet Harman interfering with the campaign and then implying they had better ideas than Ken.
While Ken was a bit tired and off key, he still performed far better than any ideas Jowell or Harman could have had.