Laurence Fox, Piers Corbyn and the imaginary dinner party from hell

I thought it might be fun to draw up a list of terrible dinner party guests – then I realised it had already been done for me, writes Rupert Hawksley

Leader of the Reclaim Party Laurence Fox (PA)

Like most people, I have thought long and hard about who would be invited to my fantasy dinner party. I won’t bore you with the details. These games, similar to stories about dreams, tend to be more interesting for the teller than anyone else.

Much more fun, I thought, to come up with the guest list from hell. Who would you least like to spend the evening with? And, please, no jokes about your mother-in-law. But this game has a snag, too. The definitive list has, I’m afraid, already been drawn up. It can’t be topped. Game over.

Allow me to introduce you to the candidates running for London mayor. By my count, there are 19 of them, which is far too many for a dinner party anyway. Just think of the washing up. But even if a few people inevitably pull out at the last minute – Sadiq Khan (Labour), Shaun Bailey (Conservatives), Luisa Porritt (Liberal Democrats) and Sian Berry (Green Party) would, you hope, have better things to do – it remains a pretty rum bunch.