Zac versus Sadiq: the fight to become London Mayor

A talkative evening with Crouch End Labour

This is me looking amazingly chic and enigmatic in my deep green, rather Mod-ish John Lewis sale suit just before striking out to give a talk about Brexit, London and Labour to the Crouch End ward branch of Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party. The people there - around 20, of them, I think - had a lot on their minds, as Labour Party people do these days. So I'm grateful to them for not dumping me at the last minute. A few even came just to listen to me. I hope they still liked me by the end.

A lovely review by Karen Buck MP

The magazine of Progress, an organisation of Labour Party members, has carried a review of Zac versus Sadiq by the popular and greatly-respected MP for Westminster North, Karen Buck. She was chair of Khan's election campaign, effectively providing a communications bridge between it and the party leader's office. It's a very generous review. Here's how it starts:

Autumn began with a bang for Sadiq Khan. Londoner of the Year in the Evening Standard annual 1,000 top Londoners awards, GQ magazine’s politician of the year, the successful rollout of ‘hopper’ bus tickets. It all looks and sounds as though the result was preordained. But Dave Hill’s highly readable and well-informed account of the months leading up to May is a useful reminder that this was far from being the case.

Now read on.