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Livingstone 'fascinated by Boris' Livingstone 'doesn't blame Brown'
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Ken Livingstone has spoken of his fascination with watching his successor as London mayor Boris Johnson at work. Ken Livingstone has said he does not blame Gordon Brown for his failure to win a third term as London mayor.
Mr Livingstone has been a frequent visitor to City Hall since losing to Mr Johnson in last month's election. He told the Andrew Marr show Labour's poll ratings had made it difficult to win the election but his "personal vote" should have been higher too.
Asked by Andrew Marr if he was "stalking" Mr Johnson, Mr Livingstone said: "I find it fascinating watching Boris do the job I was doing". And he refused to add his voice to calls for Mr Brown to go, advising the prime minister to "hang on in there".
In his broadcast interview since leaving office, he told the BBC losing the mayoralty was like a "bereavement". He also spoke of his fascination with watching his Conservative successor Boris Johnson work.
But "unlike a real bereavement", he said he was over it within a few days and was now concentrating on other things. In his first broadcast interview since leaving office, Mr Livingstone said losing the mayoralty had been like a "bereavement" but he was over it now.
Mr Livingstone was spotted in the public gallery when Mr Johnson faced London Assembly members at his first mayor's question time. Asked by Andrew Marr if he was "stalking" his successor, Mr Livingstone said: "I find it fascinating watching Boris do the job I was doing, working out how I'd do it differently, looking at what I think are the mistakes which will bring him down in four years.
Tackled about it by Andrew Marr, Mr Livingstone said: "I find it fascinating watching Boris do the job I was doing, working out how I'd do it differently, looking at what I think are the mistakes which will bring him down in four years.
"I find it fascinating, you can go and sit and watch two and half hours of Boris and it's free. You pay about ten quid to get into a cinema.""I find it fascinating, you can go and sit and watch two and half hours of Boris and it's free. You pay about ten quid to get into a cinema."
Mr Livingstone said Labour's poll ratings had made it impossible for him to win a third term as London mayor. Mr Livingstone was spotted in the public gallery when Mr Johnson faced London Assembly members at his first mayor's question time.
But he said he did not blame Gordon Brown for last month's defeat and advised the PM to "hang on in there". The ex-London mayor said he did not think changing Labour's leader would "change the outcome of the next election".
He said a change of Labour leader would not "change the outcome of the next election".