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Johnson’s mayoral mate offers tips

London’s Conservative mayor and his New York counterpart Michael Bloomberg have announced an ‘exchange programme’ to swap personnel and ideas in transport and policing

Youth leader joins Johnson ‘cabinet’

New London mayor appoints deputy mayor for young people, a former prison governor who heads an academy that aims to turn round the lives of boys headed down the “wrong path”

Johnson aims to prove he is fit for the job

London’s Conservative mayor is expected to spend the first day of his term in meetings aimed at confirming some of the appointments to crucial jobs in his administration

Probation period for London police chief

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, faces a testing probationary period under Boris Johnson after surviving earlier resignation calls from the Tories

Labour loses London in local election rout

Boris Johnson swept to power for the Conservatives in the London mayoral race, setting the seal on a disastrous round of local elections for Gordon Brown, the prime minister, who presided over Labour’s worst performance for a generation

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Democracy’s tide running against Brown

Philip Stephens

The local elections were a reminder that the system has checks and balances that militate against one-party rule, writes Philip Stephens

    Winning back the business vote

    David Cameron claims he knows what makes business tick. Yet, business praises Labour’s London mayor for promoting development and transport links. Whatever the outcome in the mayoral election, Cameron should learn from that

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      London rolls out first low emissions zone

      London has established the UK’s first low emissions zone, imposing charges on heavy-polluting trucks, in an attempt to clean up air quality in and around the capital

      Livingstone and companies tie up on emissions

      London mayor seeks to persuade the city’s largest businesses to sign up to independent carbon audits as part of plans that call for emissions cuts more quickly than government targets

      Police raid premises in LDA funds case

      Searches carried out in south London as investigations get under way into five separate projects that received public funding from the London Development Agency

      Chávez oil dollars buy bus tickets for London

      Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez broke new ground in his campaign of global oil diplomacy when London mayor Ken Livingstone announced half-price bus travel for poor Londoners, funded with millions of Venezuelan oil dollars

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      What next for Mayor Boris Johnson?

      Labour’s mauling

      A black and blue Brown

      Mayoral victory shows 'party can be trusted'

      Reaction from London business leaders

      Two-term mayor Ken Livingstone

      Profile: Boris Johnson

      Cameron ‘to prove ruling credentials’

      ‘Green goddess’ raises party’s standing

      Londoners vote in record numbers

      Vox pop: mayoral race

      Johnson mayoral war chest hits £1.5m

      Livingstone unlikely saviour for Brown

      BNP hopes to win first London assembly seat

      BNP call ‘fuels Muslim distrust’ of Johnson

      Livingstone wins City support for re-election

      Mayoral poll’s tale of two cities

      Norris eyes Johnson team role

      Hoey stance on Johnson risks party’s ire

      Personality drowns out policy in London race