Earlier this week Brian Paddick was confirmed as the LibDem candidate for London Mayor. In an interview just aired on BBC1's Politics Show the former Met police officer reveals that he was approached to throw his hat into the ring for the Tory nomination.
He tells The Politics Show: “I was approached by another political party to run as their candidate for Mayor and I just couldn’t do it because my conviction is Liberal Democrat.”
He replies "yes" when asked if he means the Conservative Party.
Paddick describes Sir Ian Blair an ‘ally of the Labour party’ and suggests, somewhat unbelievably, that the Met Commissioner allowed ‘Vote Labour’ to be painted on the side of a police vehicle. Now, Ian Blair may be biased, politically correct and not-up-to-the-job but he's not that stupid. Surely?
Given the Greg Dyke debacle it's possible that the Tories approached this soft-on-drugs policeman but Paddick is largely mischief-making here.
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