Many people in London should by now know that Boris Johnson is officially running as a candidate to be the next city Mayor. There have been rumours of the tory being the party candidate circulating for a while. Political views aside, it ought to be an interesting race.

However, Boris doesn’t seem to have a very good web team. On Friday, the frontpage headline on one of London’s free papers (the London Paper) exposed how the campaign website accidentally spilled the news of his impending candidacy three days before it was officially announced.

I’ve just tried to visit http://www.boris-johnson.com (13:20 on July 16th) and I was greeted with the default Apache setup screen. Not great if you consider that Londoners are amongst the most connected citizens in the world, especially if you’re asking for their votes.

Not a great start Boris!

UPDATE (13:30 July 16th): The website is now fixed.