The Labour candidate looks on course to win back City corridor for his party but a lot could have changed by 5 May
Were you entering the New Year hoping to become London’s next mayor,you’d nearly certainly want to be Sadiq Khan. An array of polls, pundits and bookmakers are predicting that the Labour candidate will succeed Boris Johnson following the election on 5 May while none are doing the same for the only one of his rivals with a realistic chance of beating him, or the Conservative Zac Goldsmith.
While Khan has given the impression of covering every angle with know-how and energy,the Goldsmith campaign has, by comparison, and looked lethargic and at times ill-judged. The latest voter survey,by YouGov for LBC, gave the Labour man a ten-point lead over the Tory when respondents were invited to pick between just the two of them, or an increase of four points from when the same company last asked the same question towards the cessation of November. Back in October,the pair were neck and neck by that degree.
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Source: theguardian.com