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The election was won by Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party, becoming the first Mayor of London to win a third term of office. [163] Khan increased his share of the vote by 3.8% compared to 2021. Susan Hall of the Conservative Party came second; however, the Conservative share of the vote fell by 2.6% compared to 2021.
Goldsmith's Conservative campaign emphasised connections between Khan and then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] Both the Conservative campaign and several Conservative-aligned newspapers were accused of tarring Khan as an apologist for, or even sympathiser with, Islamic extremism.
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. There had been frenzied ...
The current mayor is Sadiq Khan, who took office on 9 May 2016. The position was held by Ken Livingstone from the creation of the role on 4 May 2000 until he was defeated in May 2008 by Boris Johnson , who then also served two terms before being succeeded by Khan.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Labour Party won mayoral polls in London and central England on Saturday, in crushing defeats for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's unpopular Conservatives ahead of a ...
A video showing Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan giving an interview on Sky News was cut by the Conservative Party on Twitter to make it appear that he said the Labour Party was antisemitic ...
Sadiq Khan was re-selected as the Labour candidate in 2018, the Conservative Party selected Shaun Bailey and the Green Party chose Siân Berry. Rory Stewart, a former Conservative MP and minister, ran as an independent before withdrawing due to the delay in the election.
Mr Khan addressed the threats, social media abuse, and protests outside his family home and apologised to his wife and children. Conservatives ran ‘fear mongering’ London mayor campaign, Sadiq ...