Boris wins Tory mayoral primary

It was the Spec wot won it….well, not quite. But I like to think that our ferocious, implacable support for Boris played a small part in persuading London voters to choose him as their Tory mayoral candidate by an overwhelming margin (75 per cent of the 20,019 votes). Then again, what else were they going to do? My venerated predecessor as Editor is a giant of a politician, and his selection as the Conservative contender was – with the greatest respect to his rivals – never much in doubt. Here, at last, is a candidate who not only has the charisma and the policies to take on Ken and win. He has what it takes to wrest London from Labour’s hands and, in so doing, wipe the smile off the governing party’s collective face. Imagine if both Edinburgh and London were out of Labour control. Imagine how that would rock Gordon Brown’s confidence and challenge the new orthodoxy that Labour is destined for a fourth general election victory.