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London Mayoral Elections   

With less than 120 days to go, the Mayoral election got under way in earnest in January 2008.  Ethnic Minority Business Group (EMBG) together with the Hindu Council UK (HCUK) jointly started to interview the Mayoral candidates from the three main parties. Prior to these meetings we carried out a mini survey within the London based businesses in our network to understand the issues they wanted us to raise. Whilst some of the issues were the same for each of the main candidates, there were some specific questions for Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and Brian Paddick. We put these specific and common issues to each of the main candidates.

Boris says “I will be the next Mayor”

We recently caught up with Boris Johnson and his Director of Business Affairs, Patrick Frederick, at his campaign headquarters.   

We asked Boris to comment on the widely held view within the ethnic communities that the Labour party is more likely to champion their cause and promote their interests rather than the Conservative party. Read the full article click here