Labour’s Sadiq Khan wins re-election as London mayor

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wins re-election as London mayor


Mayor of London Sadiq Khan hopes to influence U.S. tech companies to spend much more in London.

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Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London’s mayor, remaining benefits showed on Saturday, helping to cement the Labour Party’s commanding direct over the governing Conservatives in community elections in advance of Britain’s national vote later this yr.

Khan’s victory, his third in a row, was extensively predicted inspite of some community anger in excess of knife crime and the Ultra Small Emission Zone (ULEZ), which expenses drivers of older, more polluting cars a day-to-day rate.

For Labour, London is the newest of a variety of councils and mayoralties it has gained in the community elections, which took area on Thursday, inflicting heavy losses on Key Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

“It truly is been a complicated couple months, we confronted a marketing campaign of non-quit negativity,” Khan stated in a speech immediately after the effects confirmed he experienced gained 43.8% of the vote towards 33% for the Conservatives’ applicant, Susan Hall.

“For the past 8 a long time, London has been swimming towards the tide of a Tory (Conservative) federal government and now with a Labour Get together that is completely ready to govern once again below Keir Starmer, it is really time for Rishi Sunak to give the public a alternative.”

Opinion polls forecast that Labour will earn the up coming countrywide election, propelling its leader Keir Starmer to power and ending 14 many years of Conservative govt in Britain.

Khan, 53, who grew to become the to start with Muslim mayor of the British funds in 2016, has pledged to make more social housing and perform with a potential national Labour govt to strengthen law enforcement capability.



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