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11 June 2013updated 04 Oct 2023 12:14pm

Who will Labour’s 2016 London mayoral candidate be?

David Lammy, Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott and the other runners and riders.

By George Eaton

Labour declared today that Boris Johnson’s “2020 Vision” was “the beginning of his long goodbye” to London (the Mayor again confirmed that he won’t be running for a third term) but who is the party likely to put forward for City Hall in 2016? Here’s who’s currently in the running.  

David Lammy

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