realnyebevan has been selected as the Conservative candidate for London Mayor, announcing that he will be standing on a platform that hones in on what he believes to be the three key areas. These include improving the economic climate of London and ensuring businesses flourish, making it so that neighbourhoods and boroughs flourish through affordability and transport links, and increasing community engagement in activities such as the arts and sports



DrCaeserMD, the prime minister, said that realnyebevan was a "strong candidate who has a real plan for London, who will deliver for the people of London, and will always have the ear of the government on key issues that dominate peoples lives. There couldn't be a better representative, and a better next mayor of our great city."

The announcement of realnyebevan as the Conservative candidate will be a blow to the Traffic-Light opposition parties, who have yet to formally choose a candidate to stand having joined together to select a London Mayoral candidate through an election primary.



One of these candidates can be revealed to be AV200, the Green principal speaker for London. He will be facing off against a Labour and Liberal Democrat candidate. Labour have declined to comment on who they are standing against AV200, however a senior Liberal Democrat source admitted he did not know who their London candidate was.

Commenting on the Liberal Democrat selection for London Mayor, the source said that "from what I know, and what I've seen, there's a bit of a panic."

Polls have suggested that the race is the Traffic-Light opposition's to lose, although they have indicated that since the general election in which DrCaeserMD was returned to Downing Street with an increased parliamentary party, the Conservative party has surged in London.

28.4% have said that they were considering voting Conservative in the London election up 6% from the 22.4% they won in September's general election.

Meanwhile 23.6% have said they would vote Green, down 1% from the 24.6% they won at the general election. 19.5% would vote for Labour, stagnant with no gains since the general election, 11.7% Liberal Democrat, a marked gain of 1.1% from the 10.1% they won at the general election. The Classical Liberals have gone down 0.9% since the general election, polling 9% from the 9.9% they won at the general election.

Notably trailing far behind is the National Unionist Party on 3.3%. This is a decrease of 3.4% of the 6.7% share of the vote they won at the general election.



Taking into account recent polling, if a general election was held today, it is most likely that DrCaeserMD would pick up more MPs in London that he did in September.



Combined, the Conservatives are facing a combined theoretical of 55.5% who have said they would vote for a Traffic-Light party. However, it is unlikely that the eventual Traffic-Light candidate will meet this high watermark, due to the fact it is based on voting intention before the announcement of the eventual candidate.

Key to any Conservative success appears to be the Classical Liberal candidate, who is unlikely to make it to the second round but has the potential to boost realnyebevan just head of any presumed Traffic-Light candidate in the second round.