Meet the wannabe MI5 agent turned ‘vigilante mum’ & Reform London mayor hopeful aiming to end Sadiq Khan’s nightmayor

AFTER London was left ­devastated in 2005 by the 7/7 ­suicide bombings, Reform UK’s Laila Cunningham eagerly applied to become an MI5 spy. A proud Muslim, the party’s candidate to be the capital’s next mayor told me: “My first in­s­t­inct was to protect my country.” An Arabic speaker, the daughter of Egyptian immigrants was called...