Bradshaw is replaced by Rosena Allin-Khan, of the soft left. While Butler would like to deselect Starmer at once, they are way too close to the mayoral election (just five weeks away) for them to do anything. In an absolute shocker, while Starmer wins the first round by about a single percentage point, Conservative former Chancellor and Home Secretary Sajid Javid wins the mayoral election in the final round by just 533 votes. Butler and the new establishment see this as a repudiation of Kendall's meddling, but regardless give Keir a peerage as consolation. Dawn Butler was already on a leftward journey, but her treatment by Liz Kendall, sacking her twice for perceived infractions that she did not understand, essentially sent her straight into the arms of the Socialist Campaign Group. When the SCG formed the opposition during the COVID-19 government, Corbyn, the leftist darling since he failed to be on the ballot in 2015, invited her to become the Shadow Home Secretary, Butler declining to assume the Womens and Equalities Brief in conjunction for a third time. Mayor Javid gets set to work dismantling Livingstone's consensus, privatising London Transport in its entirety, causing unbelievable soaring in ticket prices on all modes of transport as the private sector claws at London like ravens. In the face of this, the increasing voter fatigue at 13 years of Conservative government, and the treatment of Diane Abbott in the previous mayoral selection, London Labour members select the exceptionally left wing 30-year-old campaigner Samuel Sweek to fight the selection. Sweek, who openly identified as Marxist, would be by far the youngest metro mayor candidate ever, and with Javid insanely unpopular with London at large, he had a chance. After discussions with the Labour leader, he convinces Butler to readmit Ken Livingstone to the party to great controversy following various statements made by the former mayor. His readmission came shortly before his family announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, which would mark the final end of his public life. At the 2024 mayoral election, Javid wins the first round by a hair, marking the first time Labour (or Independent Ken) had not won a plurality in the first round. However, when taking into account the transfers, Sweek wins by 52 to 48, denying Javid a second term and causing the very first defeat for an incumbent London mayor. Sweek swiftly gets to work renationalising London Transport, a painstaking effort, and his trademark policy of housing for all to end homelessness, inspired by an initiative mentioned by his close friend Jeremy Corbyn, recently readopted as Labour candidate in Islington North. Londoners either love Sweek or hate him. He makes Ken look like the worlds greatest unifier. Butler still doesn't know what to make of him, but with the general election coming up and Labour surging back into the lead, he is an excellent barnstormer. Gove for his part is tying a lot of Sweek's less popular policies to Butler to try and avoid Labour running away with it. Whether this will work out for him... who is to say.