The history of the Evening Standard's '
'relentless pursuit' of Ken Livingstone

'Boris is posh, right-wing and clearly the man the Evening Standard are pinning their hopes on to topple Livingstone. Which is fine. They can back whoever they choose to back. But then this is a paper published by the Associated Group, a company which at times during the proprietorship of Viscount Rothermere in the 1930s was openly sympathetic towards Oswald Moseley, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Is today's Standard a good judge of character?'