The Standard View: Why Sadiq Khan is our pick for Mayor of London standard.co.uk/comment/sadiq-…

Government needs to be a little bit more Shoreditch and less Whitehall - excellent piece by Meg Hillier MP on inefficiency in public spending, and how we don't seem to learn from it ft.com/content/e02298…

So foreign companies can invest in our tech companies, airports, nuclear power stations, railways, roads, banks, steel mills, NHS surgeries - but the line is drawn at the Daily Telegraph

Well observed from Hugo Rifkind - what’s actually behind Scottish political turmoil is net zero (which also looms large in the London mayoral election). Not much media talk of that though, just of personalities.

Seven out of ten homes destroyed. Staggering.

What a dignified resignation statement from Humza Yousaf. Makes a change to see a leader with the humility to admit mistakes, rather than blaming everybody else.

Gloves off

'Getting a ticket to Labour Business Day has become the corporate equivalent of going to Glastonbury' - touch of hyperbole there from the FT ft.com/content/e64698… via @ft

Brilliant turnout today in Islington in support of Sadiq Khan with Emily Thornberry for the Local & Mayoral Elections!

Even more vital to #GOTV since the Tories’ latest attempt to undermine democracy through Voter ID & changing the Voting System

#VoteLabour 🌹
#LabourDoorstep

All delighted when Sadiq Khan turned up at our canvass in Caledonian Ward today! With our MP Emily Thornberry too… We say…
#VoteLabour #VoteSadiq #VoteSem The Labour Party
#Caledonian #Islington Islington Labour 🌹 #OnYourSide

This is so true - London has its problems but it's a thriving city by international standards. Yet the Tory pitch is 'be afraid, you live in a failing city'. ft.com/content/39f7d7… via @ft

Agree with Norman Baker - the royals doesn't themselves any favours by handing these weird honours out to each other

Devastating but true from Sadiq Khan 👇🏽 Hall is no joke - her divisive rhetoric is dangerous and does not belong in a mainstream party

Refugees and asylum seekers who come to this country are our responsibility and we should look after them here while their claims are evaluated. End of story in my view. Hope a future Labour government upholds that principle.

“Kigali is arguably safer than London” - what a bizarre argument for Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, a UK cabinet minister, to make #r4today

As ever - things which go viral are more complicated than the 30 or 40 seconds that are shared.

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Not quite sure what people think sacking another Met Police chief is going to achieve

Not sure what the point is in raising the stamp duty threshold from £250k to £300k when first time buyers don't pay it anyway up to £425k. Who is meant to help? People trading up?

Thought for the day on #r4today is a review of Taylor Swift’s new album🙄