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A tweet today from Oona King's e-campaigns and events officer, Kevin McKeever.

Oona King snubs Camden members

Oona King has pulled out of tonight’s Camden hustings with Ken Livingstone, and has informed the local party at the last moment to send a staffer instead.

This follows her decision to clash the hustings with her own event, aimed at women members, which has been the subject of controversy over access to membership details.

·         The debate between Livingstone and King was agreed between the campaigns and Camden Labour in early July

·         Oona King’s first email to party members across London about her own event at the same time as the Camden hustings was sent out on 19 August 2010 over a month after the Camden debate had been agreed

·         The timings of the mayoral part of the event were switched from 7pm to 8.15pm this week in order allow King to speak at both her own event and the Camden event

·         Only today have the organisers been told by King that she is not attending.

Oona King’s shoddy treatment of the membership of Camden Labour party is remarkable at a time when the ballot papers are arriving.

It shows incompetence in her team and suggests she prefers her own events to those involving a debate with Ken Livingstone.