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next londoners have exactly 100 days to

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decide who they want to run the capital

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politicians may already be on the

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campaign Trail but how much do voters

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actually know about them or would they

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even recognize any of them on the street

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our political reporter Susanna mendonsa

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is in M Hill tonight uh where the Prime

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Minister has popped in to support his

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candidate I

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believe yes that gold smith getting the

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big hitters in the Prime Minister

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arrived a short time ago I understand

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that he's going to be giving his speech

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to local activists from across London

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ging them up getting them ready for

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those 100 days ahead and the

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conservatives know that they have a

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challenge because labor have a lot more

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activists than the conservatives have

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they have a lot more people willing to

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go and knock on doors on soggy evenings

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like this to get that message across and

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it's crucial for all the parties to be

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getting their message across because

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when you speak to londoners as I have

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been doing you find that not everyone

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knows who they are let alone what their

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policies

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are they're the men and women who'd

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quite like to run things in there but

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could you pick them out in a crowd I

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think this is s Deon and who's the other

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one who said Zach Goldsmith I think

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that's Zach am I wrong that's actually

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the ukip guy that's Peter Whitt no

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that's fine Zach is the one in the uh on

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the top there okay I ought to know him

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but I can't recall his name his

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labor yeah I know that chap um I haven't

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got a clue the um what's his name uh

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George Galloway isn't it yeah that's um

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I don't know the other five so with a

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100 days to go until we all decide who

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runs London one of the key challenges

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for all the candidates will be to make

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themselves known this former spin doctor

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to Tony Blair says the Front Runners in

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this race have a long way to go Giuliani

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in New York or Ken or Boris in London

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they show you what a mayor looks like a

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big figure a charismatic figure somebody

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who you know you'd spot going down a

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road you know that people would talk to

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them you know that people would

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recognize them uh I think that sadik and

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Zach have yet to be uh breaking through

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to the public they need some big ideas

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and need some Charisma they have been

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rolling out the policies in good time

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the big one housing conservative Zack

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Goldsmith says he'd build 50,000 a year

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while labor sadique Khan wants 880,000

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homes a year respects George Galloway

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wants 50% of all new homes to be

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affordable and Yips Peter Whittle wants

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londoners to have first dibs on social

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housing the view from Big Business is

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that the mayor needs to focus on homes

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for workers housing transport and skills

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uh the mayor really has to fight uh to

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make sure that we got the right housing

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we're seeing uh businesses telling us

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that they're not being able to recruit

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the right sort of Staff because they

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can't afford to live in London that has

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to be tackled especially by the end of

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the time of the mayor you know there'll

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be 9 million people uh in this city the

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other big policy headline with a 100

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days to go is transport libdem Caroline

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pigeon wants half price fairs before

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7:30 a.m. green party Shan Barry wants

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to raise the congestion charge to pay

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for cheaper fairs and the only candidate

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not promising cheaper Affairs is Zach

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Goldsmith what they've got to Hope is

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that the voters stop paying attention

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before polling Day on May the

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5th well I've just heard a rousing cheer

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from the room downstairs where David

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Cameron is uh going to be giving that

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speech and we can expect all the parties

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to be stepping up their campaigns in the

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uh coming months and uh coming to places

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like this in out London because

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certainly for Sadi Khan and Zack

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Goldsmith for the Front Runners out to

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London could be the Clincher it could be

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the thing that swings it of course all

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of the candidates will be listed on our

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website okay Susanna thanks very much

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indeed Susanna mandona