Ken and Oona head-to-head as Labour contest reaches Wimbledon (From Croydon Guardian)

Ken and Oona head-to-head as Labour contest reaches Wimbledon

6:40am Monday 16th August 2010 in News By Paul Cahalan

Ken and Oona go head-to-head as Labour Mayor contest reaches Wimbledon

The two Labour Party hopefuls fighting to be the next Mayor of London made their pitches to party members on Monday in South Wimbledon.

Former Mayor Ken Livingstone drew on his 40 years of political experience, while Oona King, former Bethnal Green MP, presented herself as the change candidate.

Mr Livingstone said he would expand bus services, look at improving recycling and was the candidate with a track record of garnering cross-party support for tough decisions and brought the Olympics to London.

Ms King raised the idea of expanding the school buses network, would cut youth reoffending through community schemes, and said she would introduce an outer London assessment to ensure suburbs got more of cash from the Greater London Authority.

The party decides next month.