Labor elects Sadiq Khan to run for a THIRD term as Mayor of London, which would see him run the capital longer than Boris Johnson
A win two years from now would secure a third term in London
His predecessors Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone served only two terms
Tories face an uphill battle to unseat him as the party is miles behind in the capital
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Sadiq Khan will become London’s longest-serving elected mayor after being elected by Labor to run for office again in 2024.
A win in two years would earn him a third term in office, one more than his predecessors Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.
Local Labor parties in the capital supported his nomination last night. With the party miles ahead of the Tories in the London polls, it is likely that only a massive effort will be able to unseat him.
After being named as a party candidate, he said the reading would be an opportunity for Londoners to send a message to the Tories – not only for the collapse of the economy, but for their anti-London approach, the damage that to our public services, their refusal to take national action to address the climate crisis, and their appalling attempts to foment divisions among our communities for political gain.”
But Susan Hall, the Tory leader in the Greater London Assembly, said: ‘London cannot afford another four years of Sadiq Khan.
A win in two years would earn him a third term in office, one more than his predecessors Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.
Susan Hall, the Tory leader in the Greater London Assembly, said ‘London cannot afford another four years of Sadiq Khan’
“He has hit the poorest with punitive taxes, reduced the Met Police and London Fire Brigade to special measures and treated City Hall as his own personal PR machine.
“He has been an unmitigated disaster as mayor and Londoners are rightly demanding change.”
Mr Khan only won a second term last year after his majority was scrapped by former outsider Shaun Bailey.
He is serving a reduced three-year term after winning elections postponed to May 2021 from 2020 due to the pandemic.
But he was pushed all the way by Mr. Bailey, who had gotten little hope of getting near him. Including second preference votes, Khan won 55 percent of the vote, up from 57 percent in 2016.
However, since May 2021, support for the Tories across the country, including London, has been in free fall.
An October poll by Survation found that every Tory MP in London – including Johnson – is at risk of losing their seat in the next general election, trailing Labor by 37 points.
But Mr Khan is under pressure because of violent crime in the capital under his rule.
Last week he was challenged at an “amateurish, sloppy and childish” media briefing against a former police watchdog amid the fallout from the departure of Met police chief Cressida Dick.
Sir Thomas Winsor, the former police inspectorate, lashed out at a seven-page document sent to journalists by the mayor’s office.
He told a City Hall committee that it was sent the same day he issued his report on the departure of Dame Cressida Dick as Chief of Police.
In a shocking announcement in February, Dame Cressida revealed she would be stepping down as Britain’s top police officer after losing Mr Khan’s trust.
When Sir Thomas published his report on her departure in September, he found that she had been intimidated into leaving her job and concluded that Mr Khan had not followed proper procedure.
Sir Thomas appeared before the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee today and criticized the ‘briefing paper’ sent to journalists on the day he released his report.
“It’s not a press release, it’s a briefing paper where journalists had to explain their credentials before the Town Hall staff would hand it over – that’s how I got it,” Sir Thomas told the committee.
“I was really shocked by how negative the briefing was, as well as how amateurish, sloppy and childish it was. But it is as it is.’