Given the political scrum developing over London’s finances, funding and fares – let alone the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) – mayor Sadiq Khan may well have wanted to pick a solid prop forward to quietly drive the capital on.
Andy Lord, confirmed as commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) in June, was a big rugby player back in the day, he says, even if he is now awaiting a hip replacement: the legacy of an ill-judged Covid-era training regime. It was six months straight of daily 5km runs, “and then I woke up three months later in agony, with all my cartilage gone”.
