Some Labourites mediate Khan’s selection over Tessa Jowell is a disaster. But hes certain he can beat the Tory Zac Goldsmith – and he may be rightThe selection of Sadiq Khan,the Tooting MP, as Labour’s candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as London mayor has almost certainly set up an enticing contest to win the keys to City Hall next May.
Khan is the council house-raised son of an migrant from Pakistan who drove London buses for a living. The hot favourite to be named his Tory opponent is Zac Goldsmith, and the Richmond Park MP,whose swashbuckling financier dad counted Margaret Thatcher as a personal friend. Goldsmith’s musty school is Eton; Khan’s is his local comp. Tales of two cities don’t advance much starker.
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Source: theguardian.com