While the Tories scrabble around for a candidate for the 2016 London Mayoral election, Mr S hears one millionaire is already eyeballing the 2020 race.
Barely an edition of the Evening Standard fails to feature either an interview by (or with) their proprietor Evgeny Lebedev. His face is regularly found across the pages of both his publications the Standard and the Independent, most recently in an awkward interview with David Cameron. His father Alexander must have been proud, as he uploaded a photo of the two to Instagram:
Evgueny recently interviewed D.Cameron.Hope a question about UK/Russia relations was raised. A photo posted by @alexanderelebedev on Feb 21, 2015 at 10:36am PST
While most have put all this press coverage down to vanity, a new conspiracy theory is emerging. ‘He wants to be Mayor’ says a source over in the two papers’ Kensington HQ, adding ‘it’s all about his profile’.
Most newspaper proprietors are satisfied with a peerage.
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