Local GLA member Nicky Gavron is tipped to come a humiliating fourth in the election for London Mayor, according to the latest opinion poll published in today’s London Evening Standard. The news is certain to come as a blow to the local Labour party, say the Liberal Democrats.

Ms Gavron was a Haringey councillor until May this year when she stepped down from the Council. In May election’s she suffered the embarrassment of seeing her former Labour heartland in Archway fall to the Liberal Democrats, who won all six seats in the two wards covering Archway. The Evening Standard / YouGov poll show that Ms Gavron is trailing possible Lib Dem and Tory Mayor candidates, as well as Mayor Ken Livingstone, if she were to be chosen as the Labour candidate.

Ross Laird, Lib Dem Deputy Leader on Haringey Council, comments: “This news spells very big trouble for Labour. If the candidate favoured by so many Labour’s party bosses and MPs is struggling in fourth place, it shows how little faith Londoners have in Labour to deliver for the capital.”

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Evening Standard poll results: if the following were the candidates, voting intentions would be:

Ken Livingstone(Ind) – 40%
Steven Norris (Con) – 27%
Susan Kramer (Lib Dem) – 13%
Nicky Gavron (Lab) – 12%