Khan takes a pop at Kuenssberg over election tweet

To City Hall, where tonight Sadiq Khan welcomed journalists from across the city to a Diageo-sponsored drinks reception. The London mayor took to the podium to laud the efforts of his diligent and dutiful staffers, taking time to praise his comms team for their relentless work trying to defend his decision-making. Yet about certain journalists, the Labour mayor wasn’t quite as gushing…

In his self-congratulatory speech, Khan was quick to call out the commentariat for their pre-election predictions in May. Hitting out at those who suggested his Tory opponent Susan Hall could have won the contest — making a rather specific dig at one BBC broadcaster — the London mayor remarked:

We’ve got a change of political leadership in Scotland in Holyrood, in Cardiff, in Westminster, but not — as you’ve heard — in City Hall yet. It was a record-breaking, history making landslide victory. Could I thank Laura Kuenssberg for a tweet the night before for creating that sense of jeopardy?

Ouch.