Stephen Robinson

A toe-curling tragedy

The Tory bid to retain the mayoralty seemed to occur in a ­vacuum, shielded from the public gaze

issue 07 May 2016

Zac Goldsmith spent almost every day out on the stump during his London mayoral campaign dressed in the formal dark suit he inherited from his father, and had recut on his death in 1997. At least that is what a member of his team told me as I was out observing proceedings one day.

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