   If I can't be Mayor of London, am I fit to be an MP? Discuss
There is the prospect of a wholesale purge of MPs in the wake of
the Jenkins Commission EVERY NOW and then in politics, you have
a week when your feet hardly touch the ground. This last week
has certainly been one of them for me. It is now just over seven
days since the decision of the Greater London Labour Party to
recommend to Labour's leaders a vetting panel system for the
selection of our candidate for mayor. The pyrotechnic row that
exploded about Labour's control-freakery in foisting candidates
on Wales and Scotland was damaging enough, but just as you
thought things couldn't get any worse, Fraser Kemp MP emerged
from the shadows.  Now, not many people know about Fraser Kemp,
but in Labour circles he's a real Mister Big. After a successful
career in Regional Labour politics, he was a key player in our
election team and Tony Blair turned to him to organise the pro-
leadership slate in the recent NEC elections.  Given that his
tactics helped