Can things only get better? Labour's leadership race came to life yesterday with the appearance of the current second favourite for the job Liz Kendall, in front of the parliamentary press gallery. Kendall is an engaging performer with a direct approach that is winning her many new admirers. But beyond the fresh face is a rather more old-fashioned approach. Her prescription for Labour's current woes, relies on remedies first concocted by Tony Blair more than twenty years ago. Far from being the modernising candidate, what we've heard from Kendall so far is something of a step backwards.
By contrast, Boris Johnson is a far more modern politician. His views about London's black taxi trade did not win him many friends among the assembled ranks of cabbies in the audience at City Hall yesterday. But whether you agree with him or not, Boris is at least attempting to deal with the modern world as he sees it. The more than a million Londoners who have turned to using the Uber minicab app so far, will have had a lot of sympathy with what he said. | 
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