Ken won it entirely due to his tremendous charisma, which he has treated us to regularly on TV over the past few years. The guy is brilliant. How this translates into Mayorship I don't know, but certainly do have misgivings.

Many observers say that the loony left stuff during his tenure of the GLC was not his doing. Fair enough, but it still went on and he either didn't know, didn't care, or perhaps more realistically, wasn't able from a political standpoint to stop it going on. These are the fears of ratepayers - is my poll tax money going to be spent on ne'er do wells and bludgers? Will there be favouritism towards non-heteros etc etc.

As I say, the guy has been terrific OUT of power; now let's keep our fingers crossed