"[David Cameron] is under no illusions that Mr Johnson, who is notoriously gaffe-prone, will need intensive media management."

A Swiss paper has my favourite headline so far: "Eccentric Aristocrat becomes Mayor of London".

Martin Belam: "For someone who mostly makes her living writing opinion pieces, [Yasmin Alibhai-Brown] skates on thin ice when she basically dismisses anyone else who writes self-taught opinion on the basis that they do it outside the old mainstream media

"The BBC have created a map for the London Mayoral election which allows users to predict who they think will win."

Toby Harnden: "In today’s London mayoral election it is a breach of the 1983 Representation of the People’s Act for the press to report anything about how voters have voted until the polls have closed."

"There’s an election on and all over England and Wales people are discussing who to vote for - but not on the BBC." At least not until after 10pm…

Craig Oliver: "a new addition [to the BBC's election night coverage] is Emily Maitlis who’ll be sifting the chatter online with the help of some of the UK’s most committed political bloggers; Iain Dale, Luke Akehurst and Alix Mortimer."