Ken Livingstone backed Daniel Zeichner's campaign for tougher regulation of bus services in Cambridgeshire. The former mayor of London, in town to deliver the 13th Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture at the invitation of Churchill College, met with Daniel and South Cambridgeshire PPC Tariq Sadiq after his talk on 'Cities in the Future'.

Mr Livingstone’s wide-ranging lecture on the future of cities, was praised by Daniel Zeichner, and he was delighted by Mr Livingstone’s response to his question on how to improve urban transport systems. Ken explained how substantial investment had modernised the London bus fleet, and ensured reliable clean buses, with millions of extra journeys being made: "As Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone transformed bus services in London, introducing the smart-card Oyster system which slashed the time spent waiting to board buses. He kept fares low and oversaw a huge rise in bus usage.

"In Cambridge, we have been pressing Cambridgeshire County Council to use new powers to regulate bus services.

"With Ken, you could travel across London for half the price it costs to go a few stops in Cambridge. No wonder people use buses in London. That is what we need here – and Labour has given the council the powers to make it happen, but for ideological reasons they are unwilling to intervene."

Selected pictures from the lecture, reproduced by kind permission of Churchill College and Gavin Bateman, are available here, here and here. The pictures are all several megabytes in size, so if you're on a slow connection it may take a while for them to load.