Tanya Gold Tanya Gold

Handshake fatigue

On the campaign trail with London’s would-be mayors

issue 28 April 2012

On the campaign trail with London’s would-be mayors

The mayoral election is, to my eyes, two pantomime dames bickering about who gets to eat the scenery. I join it at the church hustings, St James’s Piccadilly. Boris Johnson enters, hands deep in hair, five points ahead in the polls. He sits down and gives the audience that swift, forensic look.

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