My Very Good Friend and Admirer Ken Livingstone

Ken has been interviewed about his admiration for my economic genius in steering the country to full employment and prosperity for all. He thinks I'll support him in his hopeless ambitions to be Mayor of London. I'm sorry Ken but what London needs in a Scotsman in charge. It would be an ideal retirement hobby for Michael Martin or John McCall who've both served me well. Unlike Alastair who hasn't.

I think a good price could be put on the Mayor of London candidacy if one of my very close business associates was interested is augmenting the very depleted Labour Party current account - depleted through no fault of mine and nothing to do with me.