I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

Candidate for Mayor of London
Dobson was manoeuvred by the Labour Party leadership into announcing his resignation in order to stand as Mayor of London in the inaugural elections. He then studied Economics at the London School of Economics gaining a BSc in 1962. From 1975 to 1979 he was Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Local Ombudsman.

Pancras since 1979. Frank Gordon Dobson (born 15 March 1940) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St.