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All right, only two candidates have a cat in hell’s chance of winning, but let’s look at the runners and riders in all their glory ‘London needs the “mayor of London” more than it actually needs a mayor of London, if that makes sense.’ Photograph: I-Wei Huang/Alamy ‘London needs the “mayor of London” more than it actually needs a mayor of London, if that makes sense.’ Photograph: I-Wei Huang/Alamy
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A London mayoral election looms, then. It isn’t “important” in the usual sense of the word – being mayor of London, a position with little actual political power, basically just involves doing sad eyebrows on the news when something bad happens in the city and making unconvincingly jovial hand gestures while opening a school or bridge. But mayor of London is an important role for London itself, giving it the validation it constantly craves. Despite being the biggest city in the country by