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Hello and welcome to this Easter weekend coffee house shots. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie

Balls and James Forsy. So it's a little over a month until Londoners go to the polls to vote for their next mayor.

James, you've written about this in your Times column today.

How's the race looking?

Well, I think the only drama about this race is whether Sadiq Khan is going to win on the first ballot or not.

And that would be understandable as Sadiq Khan had a stellar record as mayor, but I think

it's remarkable how little he has achieved when you can ask people what Sadiq Khan done. People struggle

to name anything, you know, even his most eye-catching plans like pedestrianising Oxford Street,

you know, I mean, that has come to nothing. And I think this is an odd thing, which is

Sadiq Khan's record is not impressive, but he looks like he is coasting to victory in what will be a very

low turnout election. Do you think this, when you look at this kind of very unimpressive list

of 20 candidates standing at the job, You would think that given the last mayor of

London is now the prime minister, they would have attracted some more ambitious people, some more

ambitious types. And I think it reflects that there is now a kind of dangerous kind of fatalism

in Tory circles. Oh, we can't win in London. You know, I mean, it's less than a decade ago that

a Tory mayor got re-elected in London.

But I think that there are lots of things causing the Tories problems in London.

You know, the city voted quite heavily to remain, the demographics skew against the Tories.

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