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At last week’s Mayor’s Question Time, the Conservative London Assembly group spent the best part of its time pretending it was still fighting last year’s election campaign, the one it lost heavily with an unacceptable candidate who is now, remarkably…the London Assembly Conservative group leader.

Go-ahead bunch, aren’t they? Learning the lessons of defeat, and all that. Forgive the sarcasm, but subjecting them to the lowest form of wit is about the best I can do for the Tories in the capital (or anywhere else) at the moment.

Even as they wasted Londoners’ time at City Hall, setting traps for Sir Sadiq Khan he is too clever to fall into, down in suburban Sutton they were heading for a by-election defeat in so emphatic it caused Lewis Baston to foresee further hammerings for them at next year’s full borough elections.