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May 2021
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The Only Honest Person In Politics (with...

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The London mayoral race has 20 candidates, and the youngest is 23 year-old YouTube star Niko Omilana. He has 3.4 million YouTube subscribers and is the first choice for City Hall for five percent of Londoners, according to an ITV London News poll.

Niko tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing he is the only honest candidate, and discusses some of his policies - free public transport for under 18s and over 69s, a 6.9% increase for the minimum wage, and Eid, Christmas, Diwali, Yom Kippur and Vaisakhi to become bank holidays.

Plus Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Therese Raphael joins to consider the latest polling for the regional and local elections, and French threats to cut off the electricity for Jersey over post-Brexit fishing disputes.

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