"Red Ken" Livingstone is gone too.
'Boris is the Mayor'
Paul Waugh, Pippa Crerar and Joe Murphy, Political Editor
Boris Johnson is the new Mayor of London, his rivals conceded tonight.
The Tory MP scored a stunning election victory to end Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign and round off a disastrous 24 hours for the Labour Party.
After a nailbiting count, Mr Johnson was so far ahead on first-preference votes he could not be caught by Mr Livingstone, even after second preferences were taken into account.
Labour officials conceded privately that the Conservative was too far ahead. At 5pm, Mr Livingstone's campaign chief Tessa Jowell said: "The reports I'm getting suggest Boris Johnson is ahead.
"If Ken has not won, London has lost somebody very special." Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick conceded defeat, saying Mr Johnson had won. Mr Livingstone did better than expected in north London - but the "Boris effect" proved unstoppable elsewhere.
Mr Johnson, 43, was endorsed by the Evening Standard and his triumph follows our exposés of the Mayor's office.
Mr Livingstone's aide Lee Jasper was forced to quit after reporter Andrew Gilligan revealed his links to a group that mislaid taxpayers' cash. Police were called in after we reported allegations of irregularities in millions of pounds of London Development Agency grants.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-may...ayor/article.do 
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