Sadiq Khan has been re-elected as the mayor of London. Khan won 55.2 percent of the vote compared with 44.8 percent for Shaun Bailey, the candidate from the ruling Conservative party. Khan seeks to ensure that “London can play its part in a national recovery” and that a “brighter, greener and more equal future” is built for the UK capital. In his victory speech, Khan referred to his humble origins, growing up in public housing in an ethnically mixed residential area in south London. “I grew up on a council estate, a working-class boy, a child of immigrants, but I’m now the mayor of London,” he said, describing himself as “a Londoner through and through”.

Source: The Nation May 09, 2021 04:52 UTC