Why Shaun Bailey is the greatest gift Sadiq Khan could wish for The Tory London mayoral candidate’s suggestion that the homeless could save for home deposits was a new low. On the day Labour selected Sadiq Khan as its candidate for mayor, there were those who thought the party had given up on London. Its decision to reject the sensible Blairite candidate, the late Tessa Jowell, was seen as another way in which the newly Corbyn-loving party was signing its own death warrant. In a move that is now funny in about four different ways, conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie greeted the news by tweeting, “BREAKING NEWS: Tories hold London Mayoralty”.