Newly knighted Sadiq Khan is serving a third term as London mayor and has threatened to run for office six times.
That's why the Tories hope Seb Coe, 68, a double Olympic gold medallist and the man who masterminded London's successful 2012 Olympic Games, will come to the rescue.
Coe set numerous world records in middle distance running, but suffered a rare setback in his career when he was defeated in the race to be president of the International Olympic Committee in the spring.
A one-time Tory MP, he is being talked of in Party circles as the stand-out candidate for the London mayoral race in 2028. He is well-known on the international stage, still a household name and would be ideal to lead efforts to bring the football World Cup back to Britain.
'He is a shoo-in for the job if he wants it,' said my Tory HQ mole.
A powerful reason to ban the burka comes from Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne.
'I cannot talk to anyone who has even a partially closed-off face. That's not rudeness, it's a practicality.' Nicholson, 83, was diagnosed as deaf at the age of 16.
Little noticed in her Spring Statement was yet another pointless boast by Rachel Reeves. Talking about extending free school meals, she said: 'This will lift 100,000 children out of poverty. Children in schools from Tower Hamlets to Sunderland, Swansea to Bridgend.'
Swansea and Bridgend are in Wales, where education is a matter for the Welsh parliament and where free school meals have already been extended.
Church of England kremlinologists note the Canterbury diocese's 'statement of needs' for its next Archbishop, which witters on about migrants and has images of women in head-coverings, also has three prominent photographs of the Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin.
The same Bishop Rose who was chaplain to the ghastly John Bercow when he was Commons Speaker and who helped organise the statement! Is she angling to be archbishop herself?
It's been a long time coming, but the longest-serving leader of a political party has at last won something after 43 years, 36 parliamentary elections and 26 by-elections: a British record.
Alan 'Howling Laud' Hope is the leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, which he founded with Screaming Lord Sutch in 1982.
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon is today bestowing its first ever National Treasure Award on him, in the form of a permanent montage at his local pub at Fleet in Hampshire as he celebrates his 83rd birthday there.
Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who ran for the Tory leadership twice - in 2019 and 2022 - told the New Statesman podcast: 'I don't think I'll be leader. I've tried three times and failed three times.' He never was very good with numbers.
Dinner with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was auctioned for a mighty £55,000 at the Tory Spring Ball last week at the Science Museum. During the auction, one wag was overheard saying: 'It's for the Last Supper.'
Musical theatre legend Sir Tim Rice says Freddie Forsyth, who died last week, was one of the great novelists. 'He packed two centuries into his 86 years. Why did he not receive a knighthood?' Quite.