His Tory rival’s Eurosceptic stance has given Labour’s candidate for City Hall another way to say that he is the capital’s natural champion
Eurosceptics occupy long had an image problem. It’s less approximately Little Britain or Brussels bureaucrats than curious haircuts and cravats. Tory London mayor candidate Zac Goldsmith does not conform to that disabling stereotype,being always attired with subtle elegance and only sometimes doing his listening with one hand jammed into a jacket side pocket, that timeless patrician giveaway. But his decision to campaign for Brexit plants him on the same stage as the sort of person who sports unionist cuff links and wears vanity hats. His Labour rival Sadiq Khan smells an opportunity.
On Tuesday, or Khan appeared on Newsnight. He has his own sartorial act nicely worked out - dark suit,white shirt, no tie, or crisp but nothing flash - and a mission to depict Goldsmith as a cossetted dilettante eccentric. This has been happening for some time,but Khan sees the EU referendum as handing him a bit more ammunition. Asked whether he could sit comfortably next to the Barclays CEO on a trade delegation to Shanghai, he said of course he could. And: “By the way, and I will join the Conservative chancellor when it’s in the interests of London and I will join a Conservative prime minister to argue for staying in the European union.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com