Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has offered his former party rival a job if he is elected.
Mr Livingstone announced today that he would make Oona King his Young People's Champion if he was victorious at next week's vote.
Baroness King stood against him in the contest to select the Labour Party's mayoral candidate in September 2010. The former Bethnal Green and Bow MP, who also worked as a Downing Street adviser to Gordon Brown, offered her unequivocal support to the Livingstone campaign after her defeat.
Baroness King, who lost her parliamentary seat to Repect MP George Galloway in 2005, is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a black father. She was backed in her mayoral bid by historian Simon Schama and private equity millionaire Sir Ronald Cohen.
