I'll be in Edmonton as this post goes live, in Bounces Road Community Hall with The Blond and Boy Dave. Team Boris bills this as the launch of the final phase of Johnson's election campaign. Ray Lewis, of Eastside Young Leaders' Academy will be providing the street cred. They're touching three bases here: crime, youth, social responsibility. We're also seeing Boris and the New Model Tory leader presenting a unified front in an Assembly constituency - Enfield and Haringey - that Labour only just holds. Team Ken's counter attack is already underway. Its press release says: "Boris Johnson is a throwback to another era...[He] represents the revolt of everything that is old against everything that is new...he is the 19th century candidate for Mayor of London." This seems a fresh line of attack. Will it negate the "time for change" message or, simply by drawing attention to it, reinforce it?
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