In a Press Gazette interview in April he said he would be happy if he never wrote about Ken Livingstone ever again.
But it seems Andrew Gilligan just can’t help himself. Over two pages in the Evening Standard last night the reigning Journalist of the Year probed Livingstone’s new HQ in Manor House and the likelihood of him running for mayor again.
In a possible mellowing of relations between the pair, however, Ken took the Standard man’s call and even answered a few questions.
Will Gilligan be called into action for a series of investigations in 2012?
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