Boris lead up to 11%

According to a YouGov poll for today's Evening Standard.

    * Boris 46% (Up 2)
    * Livingstone 35% (Down 2)
    * Brian Paddick
    * Sian Berry (Green Party)
    * Others 

Boris's lead on second preferences is 10%. Boris is on 55% to Livingstone's 45%. Quick! Off to the bookies. Can't see vote shares for Paddick or Berry, I'm afraid.

Also in the Evening Standard (just 50p from all good newsagents) is news that Brian Cooke, the Chairman of TravelWatch, London's independent travel watchdog, is backing Boris.  "It is time for a change," he says. "

Sometimes one wonders whether the truth and Mr Livingstone sit together at all. Ken has paid lip service to real consultation on a whole raft of issues and I don't believe Boris will have the arrogance of the 'Ken knows best' policy." Cooke backed Livingstone in the previous elections. Also a pretty desperate smear campaign among Muslim voters by Livingstone supporters that Boris would ban the Koran.