It is difficult to imagine a more benign environment for an incumbent. Sadiq Khan is the Labour candidate in a city that delivered Labour a landslide victory in 2019, even as Jeremy Corbyn led the party to electoral oblivion.
The mayor's opponent, Susan Hall – at best the Conservative Party's second choice – has been the subject of much disdain and has struggled on introduction to the wider public. Yet such is the low regard in which the Tories are held in the capital that Hall's meagre 24 per cent in the polls actually places her a creditable seven points ahead of her party.
