Ken Livingstone told Young People Now he'd be "delighted" to have a young mayor for London, but warned it would be difficult to organise. "We don't want to rush ahead and then find you have a really derisory turnout," he said.
Lewisham is still the only borough to have a young mayor, having created the post over two years ago. Livingstone said if other boroughs took up the idea that would be a step forward. "We'd like to see it spread to other boroughs, then you'd have more of a foundation," he said.
Livingstone collects the views of the Children and Young People's Unit at City Hall. "All my policies have a youth dimension; they are looked at by the young people on the unit, and they are building up networks," he said.
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