Sadiq Khan appoints supporter who created '#YesWeKhan' as London deputy mayor for the environment
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What should Labour learn from Sadiq Khan? Take a stand – and don’t back down | John McTernan
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, but I never doubted that Sadiq Khan would win re-election as the city’s mayor – even when rumours of a surprise upset were being breathlessly repeated. Of course, Labour has always had the ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But this has meant that the party is all too often fearful in the face of large opinion poll leads, with an electoral strategy defined by the lessons of painful defeats. The time has come to learn from winning, and where better to start than Khan’s win in London. This was, to borrow the words of the former Australian Labor prime minister Paul Keating, the “sweetest victory of all” – a victory for the true believers. What has gained Khan the two largest personal mandates in British electoral history has been his politics. The London mayoralty was the inspiration for the metro mayors who are now such a firm fixture of English politics. And it broke so much new ground. Ken Livingstone was the first mayor – …
Sadiq Khan’s Suit Is Ruining Your Boyfriend’s Summer
Sadiq Khan 4 min read2 hr Newly re-elected London mayor Sadiq Khan debuted a snappy new summer suit on Monday, and a certain brand of coffee-and-bike-bro who was planning to look quietly stylish at his 30-something pals’ weddings this summer is absolutely devastated. Khan was returned to City Hall as Mayor of London for a third term in last week’s local elections, beating the Tory candidate with a comfortable majority. When he signed back into office at the Tate Modern on Monday, he wore a smart, leaf-green linen suit by popular menswear brand Percival, which a number of men instantly recognised. With multiple formal summer-engagements clogging up their G-cals, many had also considered buying the £229 jacket and £129 trousers. Some men posted on social media declaring their horror that they had already purchased the same item, with one senior policy manager writing on X that Khan’s fashion choice had “devastated the soft left lads”. Many confessed they had been taken in by a bombardment of Instagram advertising. Rory McCarthy, who writes copy and comms for the campaign group …
Well done Sadiq Khan, but Susan Hall shows the Conservative party has given up on London
But in the end it wasn’t Hall who was the problem (and some ill-advised tweets early in her campaign had cast her in a poor light for many), it was her policies: she didn’t really have any. I sat down with her for a 90-minute talk at last year’s Conservative conference in Manchester and she said she was going to campaign on crime and Ulez. Oh, and not being Khan. And er, that was it. Myself and the parliamentary team chatted to her for an hour and a half without managing to glean anything personal or additionally relevant at all. Small-talk enquiries about which football team she supports, favourite restaurants and cultural netherworlds were met with shrugs or, oddly, “Why do you want to know that?” Like I say, we all quite liked her as a person, but worried about her ability to convincingly connect with people. And so it has proved. She is living proof that the Conservatives have given up on London. Source link
London Assembly results as Sadiq Khan wins historic third term as mayor
Sadiq Khan has won the race to be the city’s next mayor after the last results in the mayoral race were declared. Source link
Sadiq Khan Re-elected Mayor of London in Latest Win for Labour Party
Sadiq Khan, the two-term center-left mayor of London, on Saturday became the first three-time winner of the job by a comfortable margin delivering a new setback to Britain’s governing Conservative Party ahead of a looming general election. Mr. Khan, from the main opposition Labour Party, was initially elected to the post in 2016, becoming London’s first Muslim mayor, and is now the first politician to win three consecutive terms since the role was created in 2000. With the Labour Party well ahead in the opinion polls ahead of a looming general election, many analysts had expected Mr. Khan to cruise to a comfortable victory in a city that tends to lean to the left, but some saw the potential for an unexpectedly tight race against Susan Hall, representing the Conservatives. That prospect quickly faded on Saturday, as it became clear that victory was looming for Mr. Khan and, in the final results, he won more than one million votes and 43 percent of the total, with Ms. Hall securing around 32 percent. “We faced a …
Watch: Awkward moment defeated Susan Hall 'left hanging' as she tries to shake Sadiq Khan's hand
Mayor Khan fails to thank or pay tribute to Susan Hall in his victory speech Source link
Labour’s Sadiq Khan wins third term as mayor as U.K.’s ruling Conservatives endure more electoral pain
LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall. His is the biggest individual mandate of any politician in the U.K. There had been frenzied speculation on Friday that the result would be closer than previously thought, but Khan’s victory showed a swing from Conservative to Labour when compared with the previous mayoral election in 2021, even though that was conducted under a different electoral system. Khan, who replaced Boris Johnson as London mayor in 2016 and who has widespread policing and budget powers, has been an increasingly divisive figure in the past few years regardless of the facts for or against, particularly in the suburbs, where he fared worse than in the inner city. His supporters …
Labour’s Sadiq Khan wins re-election as London mayor
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan hopes to convince U.S. tech firms to invest more in London. Leon Neal | Getty Images Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London’s mayor, final results showed on Saturday, helping to cement the Labour Party’s commanding lead over the governing Conservatives in local elections ahead of Britain’s national vote later this year. Khan’s victory, his third in a row, was widely expected despite some public anger over knife crime and the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which charges drivers of older, more polluting vehicles a daily fee. For Labour, London is the latest of a number of councils and mayoralties it has won in the local elections, which took place on Thursday, inflicting heavy losses on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives. “It’s been a difficult few months, we faced a campaign of non-stop negativity,” Khan said in a speech after the results showed he had won 43.8% of the vote against 33% for the Conservatives’ candidate, Susan Hall. “For the last eight years, London has been swimming against the tide of …
Sadiq Khan wins historic third term as London mayor saying he answered ‘hate with hope’
Mr Khan thanked his family for their support, but apologised to them, telling the City Hall audience: “A special thank you goes to my mum, everything she’s done for me. I love you. And to my amazing wife, Saadiya, and our daughters Anisah and Ammarah, for their strength and support throughout all these years. Source link