It has been an interesting year for onetime Rada star Laurence Fox. The former Lewis actor turned Question Time guest announced he was running for London mayor last month but has thus far barely managed to make a ripple ahead of polling day in just a week’s time.
A city-wide poll last week showed the culture warrior on just a miserly 1 per cent — the same number as self-proclaimed joke candidate Count Binface. Whereas the former boasts of having a £5 million war chest for his ‘Reclaim’ party, the latter has had to crowdfund the £10,000 deposit needed for his campaign.
Binface told Steerpike that all excess money will be donated to Shelter after the election and that he had checked all the donations had come through permissible sources adding: ‘You may wonder whether the Prime Minister has been paying as much attention to the Electoral Commission’s rules, but on that subject I couldn’t possibly comment.’
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