More Mayoral news

Edward Lord, Deputy Campaign Director of Steve Norris's campaign has resigned from the Tories to join the Liberal Democrats. (via James) I actually met Edward Lord a few years ago when he was the sole Conservative member of the NUS National Executive in the mid-90s (I believe he was the first Conservative to be elected to the NEC for over 10 years, though someone will no doubt correct me on that) From what I recall, he was quite a respected member of the NEC, one who worked hard at his job and, I think, did attract some animosity from a few of the more fringe Conservative Students as he was quite moderate, even then.

As James says, the momentum does seem to be with the Hughes campaign at the moment, but I'm still doubtful that he'll beat Livingstone. However this news, in addition to Norris' new role at Jarvis does make me think that Hughes is currently the favourite to be in the run-off part of the election with Livingstone. As far as I'm aware, there haven't been any polls for the election recently and it'll be interesting to see where they place the candidates when they start appearing.