The mayoral race highlights a trend that is coarsening our discourse: the inflation of political invective
has finally erupted into real rancour. As the London mayoral race enters its final, critical week, the incumbent Labour mayor made a silly,
Is this normal political knock-about, or something else? Khan’s language was carefully crafted to slur his rival as something of an extremist – someone who sits outside the bounds of normal politics, someone diametrically opposed to Londoners’ values, someone who Londoners cannot trust, even if there’s zilch evidence to back it.
That sense was compounded by the shambles around the Conservative candidate selection. Hall, a longstanding London councillor and assembly member, emerged as the surprise winner while ex-London minister Paul Scully was denied a spot on the ballot. Khan seemingly had no qualms about joining forces with Hall when governing London, but has taken a nastier approach when it comes to electioneering.
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