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GREEN voters in next year’s London mayoral election should not give their second preference to Labour, one of the party’s potential candidates said yesterday.
The Green Party urged its supporters to vote for Labour candidate Ken Livingstone in the 2011 election, when he lost to Tory Boris Johnson.
But Sian Berry, the favourite in a field of six potential Green candidates, is against repeating the arrangement.
“Ken Livingstone is not the Labour Party,” she said in an interview for the Bright Green blog.
“We don’t have to give an endorsement for second preference, so, if any of the Labour candidates want it, they’re going to have to do something good. At the moment, I can see us not backing anyone, but it’s not up to me.”
Ms Berry’s comments will add to tensions with Labour after Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones said supporters should vote Tory if Zac Goldsmith becomes the Conservative candidate.
