Look out Boris! Sir Alan for Mayor?!

by Ally Papasodaro - Friday, 27th June 2008 - (3) comments - Business comment

Sir Alan Sugar has been mooted as a possible labour candidate for Mayor of London, and the grizzly entrepreneur is up for the challenge.

Sugar told the Beeb that he was “the right kind of person” for the job because he “cuts to the chase”. So, we could see the straight-talking Amstrad founder stand for the next mayoral election in 2012.

He continued: “Common sense prevails that someone like me who tends to cut to the chase, so to speak, would be the right kind of person to look after a city like London, but who knows about the politics.

“I’ve always been one of those people that walks in the office in the morning and says ’this is what we’re going to do’. I don’t think you can do that in politics and government.”

Sir Alan, who has been serving PM Gordon Brown in an advisory capacity, would be an ideal candidate for the Labour strategists, who are keen to recruit a senior businessman for the race in four years.

Sugar will no doubt benefit from his close relationship with Brown, but he could also face some stiff competition. Livingstone has been hinting that he might re-join the race, hoping for a repeat performance of his landslide victory against Frank Dobson in 2000.

Sir Alan is sanguine about his chances: “One can never say never, but I think it’s a long shot really because so many people say to me, ’oh you should be running the country’ but it’s not like walking into my office and saying this is what we’re going to do tomorrow and it just happens because I said so."

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3 Comments

July 09, 2008 4:42pm
tick-tack Says:

Sir Alan Sugar as Mayor of London and Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? You just need to add Madge from 'Benedorm' and Captain Mannering from 'Dad's Army' and the team would be complete. Now the announcement of a pending recession and some really bad news about the NHS, disasterous negative happenings on the Global warming front and a huge rise in crime, would send them all into raptures! No, no, spare me from another miserable leader. Where on earth are all the old style personalities we loved so much? Have the aliens abducted them all?

July 09, 2008 4:42pm
INSERT A HEADLINE Says:

Sir Alan Sugar as Mayor of London and Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? You just need to add Madge from Benidorm and Captain Mannering from 'Dad's Army' and the team would be complete. The announcement of a pending recession and some really bad news about the NHS, disasterous negative happenings on the global warming front and a huge rise in crime, would send them all into raptures! No, no, spare me from another miserable leader. Where on earth are all the old-style personalities we loved so much? Have the aliens abducted them all?

July 02, 2008 4:19pm
REXFORD J LADD Says:

can you please ask Sir Alan what he has suggested/offered up as stated in your review "who has been serving PM Gordon Brown in an advisory capacity" I am sure most people in the country would like to know