What does the capital mean to the Tories? One of the best barometers for this choppy relationship is the candidate the party chooses to run in London’s mayoral election. The answer for years has been “someone not many Londoners have heard of”.
In itself, that tells us a lot about the institutional view of London as a place where untested or random have-a-go sorts try out their wings, only to fade into the footnotes.
