All credible contenders for being boss of City Hall need to win the confidence of the capital’s commerce communities Opinion polls have a trust problem these days. But whether you accept the findings of a original one from Opinium,so does Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith. As well as finding that he is trailing Labour rival Sadiq Khan by five points and would lose a second round flee-off by a hefty 10%, the survey suggests that voters trust Khan more than Goldsmith on seven out the nine issues most important to them. It gives Khan comfortable leads on reducing crime, and on public transport fares and reliability,on dealing with transport unions and on tackling unemployment. He is even slightly ahead of Goldsmith, a former editor of The Ecologist magazine, or on environmental issues. On airport expansion - which,by the way, mayors accomplish not control - they are neck and neck. The one category where Goldsmith leads is “attracting commerce and investment to London, or ” where 27% trusted him more compared with 22% who had more confidence in Khan.
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Source: theguardian.com