2008 London Mayoral and Assembly election
In February 2008 the party announced that Hockney would be its candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election, 2008 Mayoral election, promising to reverse the erstwhile mayor's anti-motorist policies and to halve the Greater London Authority, GLA portion of the council tax over the four-year mayoral term. On 27 March 2008 Hockney pulled out of the race to become the mayor of London. He cited a lack of media opportunities for the candidates representing smaller parties as the reason but confirmed that the party would still contest the Assembly election. The party received just 0.14% of the London-wide list vote, coming last in overall votes and losing both its Assembly seats.Ideology and policies
Although UK withdrawal from the European Union was a central policy objective, One London concentrated its efforts on the democratic deficit within London governance and the discrepancy between levels of taxation and public spending in London compared to the rest of the United Kingdom. It also called for the abolition of the London congestion charge and claimed to be the first party to have predicted that the cost of the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 London Olympics would exceed £10 billion.Controversy
The naming of the party as 'One London' caused some comment as the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, had just started a public campaign under that name as an attempt to build closer relations between ethnic communities following the 7 July 2005 London bombings.References
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