London - The Prime Minister, Mr Blair, last night backed Mr Frank Dobson as his candidate for Mayor of London.
He told a meeting of party activists that in the end the election was about policies and not personalities or the process by which Labour selected its candidates.
He said: "The reason I believe that Frank would be a good person to be Mayor of London is because I believe in the end he would do a good job on the policies that matter to the people of London."