*My, this ought to be lively.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/03/europe/britain.php
Link: Colorful Tory beats Red Ken in London - International Herald Tribune.
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"But running for office and governing are two different things. When he was the editor of the magazine Spectator and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Johnson, a graduate of Eton and Oxford, affected a chaotic personal style and frequently landed in scrapes that he sweet-talked his way out of. Now he is suddenly in charge of a $21.7-billion budget and a complicated city - Europe's largest - filled with competing agendas and political accidents waiting to happen.
"London has been resolutely Labour in recent years, and its loss is a bitter blow to the national party and a lift for David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives.
"This was the first big test of Gordon Brown and David Cameron," Stephan Shakespeare, a co-founder of YouGov, a polling company, said. "We've had a lot of ups and downs, a lot of debate and a lot of polling, and until this moment the general feeling of malaise that hung over this government hasn't been made concrete or specific. Now it has. It shows that something has profoundly changed in British politics."...
