According to the current Foreign Secretary, Labour's David Miliband, the Conservative candidate for London's Mayor, Boris Johnson is “not serious enough to run the capital”.  Of course, he would say that, wouldn’t he?

Andrew Gilligan of the Evening Standard puts the charge against Mr Johnson in proper context.

“[The Mayoralty] …could be important. It has a massive budget, and could do a lot of good. But it has made very little impact on most of the things that really matter - the shocking state of the Tube, the lack of investment in new rail, the skills shortage and structural unemployment of the East End, the near-impossibility for most Londoners of affording a home.

All those, unlike Palestine, or global warming, are within the Mayor's power to change. But instead, we have million pound buses, grants to cronies, space programmes. That is why it is a fundamental, if surprisingly common, mistake to call Livingstone a serious mayor. It is he, not Boris Johnson, who is the real joke.”