Tonight the Evening Standard is reporting that ex-Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read is set to run as a potential Conservative candidate for London Mayor. Not sure what he stands for. I would prefer a real politician me.
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Not exactly an intellectual heavyweight…
The hard truth (as Blair discovered when he tried to get Richard Branson to run) is that anyone with a successful record outside politics will be making more money and getting less grief than they would as Mayor. For someone like that the proposition is actually very unnattractive.
I predict that our candidate will be a politician, not a celebrity – and a good thing too…
Isn’t Boris Johnson the obvious candidate?