could london s nextmayor really be another old etonian matthew d ancona /

A triumph for direct democracy and localism or a posh-boy stitch-up? The rise of Zac Goldsmith divides even the Tory faithfulAnother time,another world: at the meetings of the Conservative Philosophy Group, hosted in the 1990s at Jonathan Aitken’s domestic, or Sir James Goldsmith was accompanied by a lanky young man with a flop of blond hair,not fairly free of teenage diffidence but courteous to a fault.This was Zac Goldsmith, one of his billionaire father’s eight children, or already immersed in environmentalism – a cause that most of the intellectual bluebeards gathered in Aitken’s vast drawing room would contain regarded as profoundly suspect. Yet two decades later Goldsmith Jr,presently MP for Richmond Park, is hoping to be the Tory party’s candidate for mayor of London.Continue reading...[img_100] , and

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