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'''Sadiq Khan''' (born 8 October 1970) – a former human rights lawyer – is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting in South London since 2005. He is standing as the Labour Party's candidate in the [[2016 London mayoral election]].
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'''Sadiq Khan''' (born 8 October 1970) – a former human rights lawyer – is a [[Labour Party]] politician who won the [[2016 London mayoral election]] and was sworn in as Mayor of London on 7 May 2016.<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-36232392 "Elections: Labour's Sadiq Khan elected London mayor"]''</ref>
 
 
==Landslide?==
 
In January 2016, Sadiq Khan was reported to be set for a landslide victory over his Conservative rival [[Zac Goldsmith]] in the race to be Mayor of London. Khan, who began the new year with a pledge to freeze London transport fares, is now ten points clear of Goldsmith according to the YouGov poll for LBC. Khan is on 45% compared to just 35% for Goldsmith, once undecided and non-voters have been excluded.
 
 
 
If borne out on 5 May 2016, it would be the largest victory for any candidate since the London mayoralty was set up and a major boost for the Labour party.<ref>[http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2016/01/07/sadiq-khan-on-course-for-landslide-victory-over-zac-goldsmit "Sadiq Khan on course for landslide victory over Zac Goldsmith"]</ref>
 
  
==Look at second preferences==
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In announcing on 10 May 2016 he was standing down as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting in South London, Sadiq Khan tweeted:
Asa Bennett, the Assistant Comment Editor at the ''Daily Telegraph'', told LBC that Zac Goldsmith's team does not need to be too worried, saying:
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:"I've stepped down as Tooting MP to be a full-time Mayor of our city. It's been an honour to serve my home patch & I've loved every minute."<ref>''[https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/729996877878460416 "I've stepped down as Tooting MP to be a full-time Mayor of our city"]''</ref>
:"Boris has shown he can come from behind. For example, in the 2012 campaign, about six months before, [[Boris Johnson|Johnson]] was at 39% and [[Ken Livingstone|Livingstone]] at 45%. So this is very surmountable. The thing that people aren't looking at is second preferences.
 
  
:"When it comes down to it, Zac will have the Greens in the bag who would love to vote for the former editor of [[The Ecologist]] magazine. He'll have [[UKIP]] in the bag, given he's a Eurosceptic.
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The resultant Tooting by-election took place on 16 June 2016, when Labour's Dr [[Rosena Allin-Khan]] was elected with a 6,357 vote majority over the Conservative candidate, Dan Watkins.<ref>''[https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/75017/rosena-allin-khan-selected-labour-candidate "Rosena Allin-Khan selected as Labour candidate for Tooting by-election"]''</ref><ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36555789 "Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan wins Tooting by-election"]''</ref>
  
:"But Sadiq will be under threat from some left-wing voters who are going to be tempted by [[George Galloway]], who is trying to out-[[Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn]] Sadiq."<ref>[http://www.lbc.co.uk/sadiq-khan-winning-race-to-be-london-mayor-poll-122690 "Sadiq Khan Winning Race To Be London Mayor: Poll"]</ref>
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Three months after the mayoral election, Sadiq Khan provoked a ''[[Twitter]]'' storm by criticising [[Leader of the Labour Party|Labour leader]] [[Jeremy Corbyn]] and calling on Labour members to vote for leadership contender [[Owen Smith]]. One of the 15,000+ tweets said Khan had only won the nomination because of Corbyn’s support, otherwise [[Tessa Jowell]] would have been Labour’s candidate (and [[Zac Goldsmith]] would probably be Mayor now).<ref>''[http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/08/20/sadiq-khan-shoots-himself-in-foot-while-trying-to-backstab-corbyn/ "Sadiq Khan shoots himself in foot while trying to backstab Corbyn"]''</ref>
  
==No unnecessary risks==
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==Victory for hope over fear==
Sadiq Khan's team know they face a struggle to win back the sort of working class outer London voters that the party lost to Boris in both 2008 and 2012. Whatever the polls say, Labour needs to reach beyond their comfort zone if they are to see off Goldsmith in May. That said, Khan's campaign are also not willing to take any unnecessary risks either. And with [[Ken Livingstone]]'s long history of putting his foot in it, Khan's team appear to believe that standing beside Livingstone would be the biggest unnecessary risk of all.<ref>[http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/01/26/where-s-ken-sadiq-khan-distances-himself-from-former-mayor "Where's Ken? Sadiq Khan distances himself from former mayor"]</ref>
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On his ''Facebook'' page, Sadiq Khan wrote:
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:Thank you!
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:Today was an amazing victory for hope over fear and for unity over division – and it simply would not have been possible without your help.
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:This victory is not about me. It's about the millions of Londoners whose lives we can improve by building more affordable homes, freezing fares, restoring community policing and cleaning up our toxic air.
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:Thanks to the time, money and support you gave, we were able to overcome a desperate and nasty Tory campaign. We've sent a strong message that the politics of fear are not welcome in London.
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:Now the hard work starts. Let's make London even better for all Londoners.
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:Thanks again, Sadiq<ref>''[https://www.facebook.com/sadiqforlondon/posts/1143125672406885 "Victory for hope over fear and for unity over division"]''</ref>
  
 
==London bombings slur==
 
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To which, Sadiq Khan tweeted in response:
 
To which, Sadiq Khan tweeted in response:
 
:@ZacGoldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/726779736228241409 "Zac Goldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day"]</ref>
 
:@ZacGoldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/726779736228241409 "Zac Goldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day"]</ref>
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On 6 May 2016, [[Jemima Goldsmith]] tweeted that her brother was an "eco-friendly, independent-minded politician with integrity" and his campaign, which has been widely criticised for using "dog-whistle racism", did not reflect this.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zac-goldsmiths-london-mayor-jemima-goldsmith-sadiq-khan-racist-campaign-has-criticised-his-campaign-a7017801.html "Zac Goldsmith's sister Jemima publicly criticises his London mayoral campaign"]</ref> In another tweet, she congratulated Sadiq Khan as the "1st Muslim Mayor of London - a city for all cultures, backgrounds & religions. A great example to young Muslims."<ref>[https://twitter.com/Jemima_Khan/status/728650778555129856 "Congratulations to Sadiq Khan"]</ref>
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==Top priority for new London Mayor==
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Before the announcement of Khan's election as Mayor, this post appeared on the ''Facebook'' page "2016 London mayoral election should focus on Heathrow Airport":
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:The Mayor of London is required to set policing and crime priorities for the [[Metropolitan Police Service]].
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:The new Mayor's top priority must be to get Scotland Yard finally to investigate the murder of 270 people in the 1988 [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]], in particular the targeting of the highest profile victim: Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, [[Bernt Carlsson]].<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/958040884289268/ "2016 London mayoral election should focus on Heathrow Airport"]</ref>
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Following his swearing-in on 7 May 2016, this was posted to Khan's ''Facebook'' page:
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:On 21 December 1988, [[Pan Am Flight 103]] - the Boeing 747 jumbo jet with a bomb and 259 passengers and crew aboard - took off from Heathrow Airport at 18:25hrs. It exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland at 17:03hrs killing 270 people, including eleven in the town.
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:The targeting of Lockerbie's highest profile victim Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, [[Bernt Carlsson]], has never been investigated.
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:The new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, must get the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] to undertake a [[Bernard Hogan-Howe#Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry|Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry]] as a top priority.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/sadiqforlondon/posts/1143458102373642 "Top priority for new London Mayor"]</ref>
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===Sophie Linden on board===
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On 30 May 2016, it was reported that the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, [[Sophie Linden]], were agreed on the need for [[Scotland Yard]] to investigate the targeting of [[Bernt Carlsson]] on [[Pan Am Flight 103]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/BerntCarlsson/status/737387101856096257 "Mayor #SadiqKhan and #DMPC #SophieLinden agree #TheMet must investigate #PanAm103"]</ref>
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On 8 June 2016, however, Sophie Linden's "Strategic Advisor" indicated that it was for [[Police Scotland]] rather than the [[Metropolitan Police]] to investigate both the loading of the Lockerbie bomb at Heathrow airport and the break-in to the airside baggage handling area in the early hours of 21 December 1988.
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Whether this means that [[The Met|the Met]]'s Sir [[Bernard Hogan-Howe]] or Scotland's Chief Constable [[Phil Gormley]] has responsibility for launching the [[Bernt Carlsson]] murder inquiry is unclear.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/118951448146734/permalink/1097727170269152/?comment_id=1105618049480064 "Passing the buck to Police Scotland"]</ref>
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==Public positions==
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Khan's first public engagement following his election as London Mayor was to attend a Jewish Yom HaShoah ([[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] commemoration) event in Barnet North London where he promised to be ''"a Mayor for all London's citizens"' and pledged ''"[[zero tolerance]] towards [[Antisemitism|antisemitism]]."''<ref>[http://www.thejc.com/node/157902 Sadiq Khan pledges '[[zero tolerance]] to antisemitism' as he attends Yom HaShoah event]</ref>
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Campaigning in the [[EU Referendum]] and sharing a platform with PM [[David Cameron]] on 30 May 2016, Sadiq Khan said he would work closely with the Conservative government:
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:“The reason why London is the greatest city in the world – and it is, we have never taken an isolationist approach, we are open-minded, we are outward-looking, we embrace other cultures and learn from other cultures and ideas as well.”<ref>[https://www.rt.com/uk/344880-cameron-khan-proud-muslim/ "David Cameron calls Sadiq Khan a ‘proud Muslim’ just weeks after linking him to Islamic extremism"]</ref>
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On 20 April 2019, it was reported that Sadiq Khan had joined the [[Zionist]] [[Jewish Labour Movement]] as an affiliate member and encouraged [[Labour Party|Labour]] colleagues to do the same.<ref>''[https://5pillarsuk.com/2019/04/20/sadiq-khan-joins-zionist-jewish-labour-movement/ "Sadiq Khan joins Zionist Jewish Labour Movement"]''</ref>
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Pro harshest [[COVID]] restrictions; lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates.
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Supports mass immigration and [[open borders]].<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1482201/sadiq-khan-afghan-refugees-london-council-homes-afghanistan-crisis</ref>
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He is spending 1 million pounds of taxpayers money on renaming offensive road names.<ref>https://www.rt.com/uk/538165-london-mayor-fund-renaming-streets/</ref>
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Latest revision as of 18:32, 21 December 2021

Person.png Sadiq Khan   Facebook Powerbase Sourcewatch Twitter WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Lawyer, Politician)
Sadiq Khan.jpg
BornSadiq Aman Khan
8 October 1970
London
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of North London
ReligionIslam
Children2
SpouseSaadiya Ahmed
Member ofBritish-American Project, Franco-British Colloque
PartyLabour

Employment.png Mayor of London Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
7 May 2016 - Present
Preceded byBoris Johnson

Employment.png Shadow Minister for London Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
16 January 2013 - 11 May 2015
Preceded byTessa Jowell

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
14 May 2010 - 8 October 2010
Succeeded byMaria Eagle

Employment.png UK/Minister of State for Transport

In office
8 June 2009 - 11 May 2010
Succeeded byMike Penning

Employment.png Minister of State for Communities

In office
4 October 2008 - 8 June 2009

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

In office
8 October 2010 - 11 May 2015
Preceded byJack Straw

Employment.png Shadow Lord Chancellor Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
8 October 2010 - 11 May 2015
Preceded byJack Straw

Employment.png Member of Parliament for Tooting

In office
5 May 2005 - 9 May 2016

Sadiq Khan (born 8 October 1970) – a former human rights lawyer – is a Labour Party politician who won the 2016 London mayoral election and was sworn in as Mayor of London on 7 May 2016.[1]

In announcing on 10 May 2016 he was standing down as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting in South London, Sadiq Khan tweeted:

"I've stepped down as Tooting MP to be a full-time Mayor of our city. It's been an honour to serve my home patch & I've loved every minute."[2]

The resultant Tooting by-election took place on 16 June 2016, when Labour's Dr Rosena Allin-Khan was elected with a 6,357 vote majority over the Conservative candidate, Dan Watkins.[3][4]

Three months after the mayoral election, Sadiq Khan provoked a Twitter storm by criticising Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and calling on Labour members to vote for leadership contender Owen Smith. One of the 15,000+ tweets said Khan had only won the nomination because of Corbyn’s support, otherwise Tessa Jowell would have been Labour’s candidate (and Zac Goldsmith would probably be Mayor now).[5]

Victory for hope over fear

On his Facebook page, Sadiq Khan wrote:

Thank you!
Today was an amazing victory for hope over fear and for unity over division – and it simply would not have been possible without your help.
This victory is not about me. It's about the millions of Londoners whose lives we can improve by building more affordable homes, freezing fares, restoring community policing and cleaning up our toxic air.
Thanks to the time, money and support you gave, we were able to overcome a desperate and nasty Tory campaign. We've sent a strong message that the politics of fear are not welcome in London.
Now the hard work starts. Let's make London even better for all Londoners.
Thanks again, Sadiq[6]

London bombings slur

Referring to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat, Zac Goldsmith wrote in the Mail on Sunday on 1 May 2016:

“On Thursday, are we really going to hand the world’s greatest city to a Labour Party that thinks terrorists are its friends?”[7]

To which, Sadiq Khan tweeted in response:

@ZacGoldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day.[8]

On 6 May 2016, Jemima Goldsmith tweeted that her brother was an "eco-friendly, independent-minded politician with integrity" and his campaign, which has been widely criticised for using "dog-whistle racism", did not reflect this.[9] In another tweet, she congratulated Sadiq Khan as the "1st Muslim Mayor of London - a city for all cultures, backgrounds & religions. A great example to young Muslims."[10]

Top priority for new London Mayor

Before the announcement of Khan's election as Mayor, this post appeared on the Facebook page "2016 London mayoral election should focus on Heathrow Airport":

The Mayor of London is required to set policing and crime priorities for the Metropolitan Police Service.
The new Mayor's top priority must be to get Scotland Yard finally to investigate the murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in particular the targeting of the highest profile victim: Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bernt Carlsson.[11]

Following his swearing-in on 7 May 2016, this was posted to Khan's Facebook page:

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 - the Boeing 747 jumbo jet with a bomb and 259 passengers and crew aboard - took off from Heathrow Airport at 18:25hrs. It exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland at 17:03hrs killing 270 people, including eleven in the town.
The targeting of Lockerbie's highest profile victim Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bernt Carlsson, has never been investigated.
The new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, must get the Metropolitan Police Service to undertake a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry as a top priority.[12]

Sophie Linden on board

On 30 May 2016, it was reported that the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden, were agreed on the need for Scotland Yard to investigate the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103.[13]

On 8 June 2016, however, Sophie Linden's "Strategic Advisor" indicated that it was for Police Scotland rather than the Metropolitan Police to investigate both the loading of the Lockerbie bomb at Heathrow airport and the break-in to the airside baggage handling area in the early hours of 21 December 1988.

Whether this means that the Met's Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe or Scotland's Chief Constable Phil Gormley has responsibility for launching the Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry is unclear.[14]

Public positions

Khan's first public engagement following his election as London Mayor was to attend a Jewish Yom HaShoah (Holocaust commemoration) event in Barnet North London where he promised to be "a Mayor for all London's citizens"' and pledged "zero tolerance towards antisemitism."[15]

Campaigning in the EU Referendum and sharing a platform with PM David Cameron on 30 May 2016, Sadiq Khan said he would work closely with the Conservative government:

“The reason why London is the greatest city in the world – and it is, we have never taken an isolationist approach, we are open-minded, we are outward-looking, we embrace other cultures and learn from other cultures and ideas as well.”[16]

On 20 April 2019, it was reported that Sadiq Khan had joined the Zionist Jewish Labour Movement as an affiliate member and encouraged Labour colleagues to do the same.[17]

Pro harshest COVID restrictions; lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates.

Supports mass immigration and open borders.[18]

He is spending 1 million pounds of taxpayers money on renaming offensive road names.[19]


 

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