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Zac Goldsmith’s London campaign was a toe-curling embarrassment

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

7 May 2016

9:00 AM

7 May 2016

9:00 AM

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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Stephen Robinson is the author of The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes.


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