"All the signs point to Boris winning by a small margin of between 2% and 8%, " said Murphy.
So what is the official response from Downing Street to Boris Johnson's most recent incident?
It happened to Boris Johnson in Hyde Park in central London the night before the Olympics began.
You have to go back to Boris Karloff to discover a similar blend of brutishness and delicacy.
When FORBES asked Avtovaz President Alexei Nikolaev about his ties to Boris Berezovsky, the industrial manager and his aides exchanged worried looks.
They want to speak to Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch based in London, about whether the club was used to launder money.
He returned to Moscow in December 1991 to cover the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition from Mikhail Gorbachev to Boris Yeltsin.
In interviews in London, he would willingly recall his part in putting forward Mr Putin as a suitable successor to Boris Yeltsin as Russian president in 1999.
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This new Russia, strident but erratic, requires a subtler approach than either the straightforward rivalry of Soviet times or the handouts and advice (not always very helpful) offered to Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
"What I would say to Boris, what I have said to Boris, is that for the first time a government has properly put all the options, including estuary options, on the table, " he said.
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It follows suggestions that a scheme similar to the Boris Bikes initiative in London could be brought to Worthing.
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Although they technically belong to the Queen they are likely to become Boris Johnson's responsibility if the management of the Royal Parks is transferred to the London Mayor's office.
Ken Livingstone, the capital's ex-mayor, tried to implicate Boris Johnson, his successor.
For example, the Bush Administration's insistence on sticking with Gorbachev contributed to its missing the window of opportunity to help Boris Yeltsin while he was genuinely engaged in reform.
He would make, if not a sure-fire Russian presidential candidate in his own right, then the ideal running-mate for any Russian conservative or nationalist seeking to succeed Boris Yeltsin.
The London Fire Authority has decided not to challenge Mayor Boris Johnson's order to hold a public consultation on proposed cuts to London Fire Brigade.
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The London Fire Authority has voted not to comply with Boris Johnson's order for a public consultation on plans to close 12 fire stations.
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The two predecessor exchanges dated back to the presidency of Boris Yeltsin in the early-to-mid-1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In Russia the chief public prosecutor, whom President Boris Yeltsin wants to sack, confirmed that a businessman friend of Mr Yeltsin, Boris Berezovsky , faces arrest for corruption if he returns to Russia.
He said the authority's planners had approved the King Street regeneration project for the area around Hammersmith Town Hall in November 2011, and the proposals were referred to London mayor Boris Johnson.
According to Alexei Yablokov, a noted scientist who used to advise President Boris Yeltsin on ecology and now heads a pressure group, Russia's security services remember and resent the role that greens played in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In a letter to DUP MP Ian Paisley, Boris Johnson said he remains committed to "the roll-out of 600 production vehicles between now and 2016".
Abramovich claimed during the trial that Boris had links to Chechen terrorists, while an ex-Chechen separatist claimed that Boris financed separatists in the 1990s.
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But Mr Putin's subsequent hounding into exile of two of the oligarchs who refused to relinquish power, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, bore troubling witness to his authoritarian instincts.
It asked Mayor Boris Johnson to provide more toilets at train, bus and Crossrail stations.
It was an election pledge of Mayor Boris Johnson to make traffic flow more smoothly.
They were eventually hauled in front of London Mayor Boris Johnson to give him assurances.
Forty-six per cent of respondents called on Boris Johnson to lobby for a reversal of the tax credit cut.
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