David Cameron’s old pal on why she won’t vote for Zac: ‘he doesn’t look as if he cares’

As Zac Goldsmith lags behind Sadiq Khan in the polls ahead of the London mayoral election, it’s a case of all hands on deck in order to boost his chances come polling day. However, while David Cameron used PMQs last week to do exactly this — attacking Sadiq Khan for his links to extremists — the Prime Minister has still failed to convince members of his inner circle that Goldsmith is the man for the job.

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After Cameron’s sister-in-law Emily Sheffield appeared to get behind Sadiq Khan’s campaign earlier this month, one of Cameron’s closest friends has today declared that she won’t be bothering to vote in the mayoral election. Writing in her Times column, Alice Thomson says she can’t bring herself to vote for either candidate. Where Khan appears to lack principles, she says Goldsmith ‘doesn’t look as if he cares whether he wins or not’:

‘Goldsmith should be the obvious alternative.