Saturday, May 7, 2016

Sadiq Khan praises Londoners for choosing unity over division

London has welcomed it's new Mayor.  The Labour Party's Sadiq Khan becomes the first Muslim to hold the post after a bitter campaign during which his main rival, Conservative Zac Goldsmit claimed Mr Khan  had links to extremists.  

In the end voters chose the son of a Pakistan-born bus driver over the privately-educated heir to a fortune.

During the campaign, Mr Khan admitted before becoming an MP he did share platforms with people whose views he had sometimes opposed, through his work as a human rights lawyer, but that he was a well known anti-extremist. 

In his victory speech, he pledged to represent everyone in the capital. 

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In his victory speech, he thanked the voters for rejecting what he called the politics of fear.


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