On the Daily Politics show yesterday, Tessa Jowell again demurred over whether she will stand as mayor but then went further saying ‘other candidates should bide their time’ and not put themselves forward till 2015. This is wrong and only serves the interests of the established politicians, who apart from Ms Jowell, have seats they […]

Last night’s event on winning London in 2015 at the House of Commons organised by Progress was a strange event. It was according to the organisers not billed as a hustings for the mayoralty which is why, according to Progress, I was not invited to be on the panel. Yet, the make up of the […]

The mauling John O’Farrell got in the tabloid press for a silly thing he wrote more than 20 years ago does explain one reason why the queue of people ready to move into politics is not large. The context of O’Farrell’s quip about regretting Mrs Thatcher was not killed in the Brighton bomb in his […]