There is an unhappy history of left-wing Britons getting involved in US elections. Back in 2004, the Guardian organised a letter-writing campaign, urging voters in the swing state of Ohio not to re-elect George W. Bush. The good people of Ohio didn’t take kindly to a bunch of Islingtonians telling them how to vote, and although the Guardian ’s campaign probably can’t be given all the credit, the voters of Ohio duly went to the polls and swung firmly behind Bush.

One wishes that Sadiq Khan’s intervention in this week’s New York mayoral election might have had a similar result. Interviewed shortly before Zohran Mamdani was elected, the mayor of London praised the Democratic Socialist candidate for mayor of New York as ‘fun’ and ‘authentic’. A spokesman for the London mayor proclaimed

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