As well as Newsnight tomorrow, BBC London next week and Question Time the week after, today’s Channel 4 News at Noon was followed by an advert alerting me to the fact that this Thursday, 10 April, will see the three leading candidates participating in their first live radio debate, on LBC 97.3, available on FM and DAB.

The snappily-named LBC 97.3FM Mayoral Debate with Nick Ferrari kicks off at 8am, and the web site includes a form for you to submit your questions for the candidates in advance.

Alternatively, you can call in during the debate on 0845 60 60 973 if you’d like to join in then.

According to the web site:

No-one is better placed to take on the three main candidates than Nick Ferrari. He was David Cameron’s first choice to be the Conservative mayoral candidate, he is also the radio presenter Ken Livingstone tried to get sacked – after Nick gave out Ken’s phone number on-air.

Sounds like a lovely bloke, particularly when you add a bit of Wikipedia into the mix:

Broadcasting Standards Committee complaint

In 2003 The Broadcasting Standards Committee upheld a complaint against Ferrari, finding that his programme’s "active reinforcement of prejudiced views about asylum seekers had exceeded acceptable boundaries for transmission".

Hmm. I might have been on the lookout for right-wing bias in his treatment of the three candidates in the debate, were it not for the fact that it sounds like he’s to the right of all of them.

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