Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be London Mayor after getting 1.8 per cent of the vote.
The actor, 42, who set up the Reclaim Party for his election race, won 47,634 votes placing him in sixth, behind YouTuber Niko Omilana whose policies included Boris Johnson will be forced to shush and the price of Fredos will go back to 5p .
Candidates need five per cent of first-preference votes to get back their deposits, which only three candidates surpassed: Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey and the Green s Sian Berry.
Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be London Mayor after getting 1.8 per cent of the vote
Sadiq Khan and Shaun Bailey row over ludicrous £4.68bn tax bombshell claims
Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey unveils a new billboard (Getty Images)
Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Sadiq Khan have today clashed over claims that the incumbent London mayor would raise taxes by £4.68bn over the next three years if re-elected.
Bailey said today that Khan’s plans would mean households would have to pay £1,339 more in tax, however this figure comes mostly from a proposed tax that has not been approved and would not be paid by Londoners.
Khan’s team said Bailey’s figures were “ludicrous”, had “no basis in reality” and that they were “starting to feel for the Tory candidate” with just weeks to go before polling day.
Leading London mayor candidates signal support for permanent Covid memorial Sophia Sleigh
Leading mayoral candidates today signalled their support for a permanent Covid memorial monument in London.
Incumbent Sadiq Khan said he completely understood the desire for a lasting memorial while Tory candidate Shaun Bailey said a public monument would give people “a space to reflect”.
Their support comes after the Prime Minister promised a “fitting and permanent memorial” to Covid victims “at the right moment”.
Mr Khan, who has already founded a blossom garden in the Olympic Park to mark the anniversary of the first lockdown, said: “If I’m re-elected on 6 May I’ll listen carefully to all potential proposals from local communities and councils for further fitting tributes in our city.”