Mayor Sadiq Khan was having his name dragged through the mud by some senior figures in his own party today. Anonymous briefings from Labour higher-ups blame the party’s surprise defeat in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election on Khan’s decision to expand Ulez to outer London. The Conservatives ran a fierce anti-Ulez campaign and clinched the seat despite lagging behind in national polls. But it’s not all bad news today for the Mayor. Rapper Stormzy has just released a single in which Khan features as a model of hands-on local government. In the song, titled The Weekend and written and performed with singer Raye, above, Stormzy tells the story of a man and woman attempting to organise a date on a convenient day of the week, before settling on the weekend. “Monday to Friday I know it gets peak / True say, I do run the city like Sadiq,” raps Stormzy, continuing: “I’m a come through at the end of the week / Turn a really good girl into a freak”. Sadly Khan’s team wasn’t briefed on the mention so he didn’t get to appear in the music video, which dropped yesterday.
