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BORIS Johnson will win the race for London mayor by 10 points, a poll suggested yesterday.
With just two days before voters choose who they want to run the capital, the survey predicted a 55-45 per cent victory for the Tory candidate.
But almost one in seven Londoners have yet to make up their minds - and late decisions could still sway the outcome on Thursday.
'The election remains finely balanced,' Mr Johnson warned yesterday. 'The next few days are the most critical.' The findings in a YouGov poll for London's Evening Standard newspaper came as the Tory front-runner put crime at the centre of his campaign.
He highlighted an independent study showing street violence at a five-year high, with 43 per cent of Londoners believing they or their family were in immediate danger. The vast majority - 85 per cent - blamed Mr Livingstone.
Separate figures obtained by the Johnson campaign, and seen by the Daily Mail, show that there are five reported rapes in London every day.
Official Scotland Yard records show that there were 8,766 sexual offences - one an hour - in 2007-08, including 1,919 rapes.
Mr Johnson admitted during a TV interview yesterday that he had once tried to take cocaine - or at least something he had been told was the Class A drug.