next londoners have exactly 100 days to
decide who they want to run the capital
politicians may already be on the
campaign Trail but how much do voters
actually know about them or would they
even recognize any of them on the street
our political reporter Susanna mendonsa
is in M Hill tonight uh where the Prime
Minister has popped in to support his
candidate I
believe yes that gold smith getting the
big hitters in the Prime Minister
arrived a short time ago I understand
that he's going to be giving his speech
to local activists from across London
ging them up getting them ready for
those 100 days ahead and the
conservatives know that they have a
challenge because labor have a lot more
activists than the conservatives have
they have a lot more people willing to
go and knock on doors on soggy evenings
like this to get that message across and
it's crucial for all the parties to be
getting their message across because
when you speak to londoners as I have
been doing you find that not everyone
knows who they are let alone what their
policies
are they're the men and women who'd
quite like to run things in there but
could you pick them out in a crowd I
think this is s Deon and who's the other
one who said Zach Goldsmith I think
that's Zach am I wrong that's actually
the ukip guy that's Peter Whitt no
that's fine Zach is the one in the uh on
the top there okay I ought to know him
but I can't recall his name his
labor yeah I know that chap um I haven't
got a clue the um what's his name uh
George Galloway isn't it yeah that's um
I don't know the other five so with a
100 days to go until we all decide who
runs London one of the key challenges
for all the candidates will be to make
themselves known this former spin doctor
to Tony Blair says the Front Runners in
this race have a long way to go Giuliani
in New York or Ken or Boris in London
they show you what a mayor looks like a
big figure a charismatic figure somebody
who you know you'd spot going down a
road you know that people would talk to
them you know that people would
recognize them uh I think that sadik and
Zach have yet to be uh breaking through
to the public they need some big ideas
and need some Charisma they have been
rolling out the policies in good time
the big one housing conservative Zack
Goldsmith says he'd build 50,000 a year
while labor sadique Khan wants 880,000
homes a year respects George Galloway
wants 50% of all new homes to be
affordable and Yips Peter Whittle wants
londoners to have first dibs on social
housing the view from Big Business is
that the mayor needs to focus on homes
for workers housing transport and skills
uh the mayor really has to fight uh to
make sure that we got the right housing
we're seeing uh businesses telling us
that they're not being able to recruit
the right sort of Staff because they
can't afford to live in London that has
to be tackled especially by the end of
the time of the mayor you know there'll
be 9 million people uh in this city the
other big policy headline with a 100
days to go is transport libdem Caroline
pigeon wants half price fairs before
7:30 a.m. green party Shan Barry wants
to raise the congestion charge to pay
for cheaper fairs and the only candidate
not promising cheaper Affairs is Zach
Goldsmith what they've got to Hope is
that the voters stop paying attention
before polling Day on May the
5th well I've just heard a rousing cheer
from the room downstairs where David
Cameron is uh going to be giving that
speech and we can expect all the parties
to be stepping up their campaigns in the
uh coming months and uh coming to places
like this in out London because
certainly for Sadi Khan and Zack
Goldsmith for the Front Runners out to
London could be the Clincher it could be
the thing that swings it of course all
of the candidates will be listed on our
website okay Susanna thanks very much
indeed Susanna mandona