In the run-up to the 2015 general election, former prime minister Lord Cameron famously compared third terms to a popular advertising slogan for Shredded Wheat, suggesting that “two are wonderful but three might just be too many”. Sadiq Khan, the two-time Mayor of London, appears to have no such concerns about his appetite for a further four years in office.
The Mayor is telling anyone who will listen that tomorrow’s election is a two-horse race between himself and his Tory rival, Susan Hall. And he is right. The decision by the Government to switch the electoral system to first-past-the-post dictates that voters realistically have only one of two levers to pull: Labour or Conservative. This theoretically increases the chances of an upset.
