This election was not without controversy and I’m so proud that Londoners have today chosen hope over fear and unity over division.
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The result bolsters leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost some English councillors.
Khan’s win seemed inevitable as all first preference votes were counted, giving him a 46 per cent vote share, nine points ahead of Goldsmith.
“London is safe with a Conservative government working with the new mayor of London”, Fallon said.
Cameron said the strong showing in Scotland would allow the Conservatives to “stand up to the SNP and give Scotland strong opposition”. “Fear does not make us safer, it only makes us weaker, and the politics of fear is simply not welcome in our city”.
Outgoing mayor Boris Johnson said: “Many congratulations to Sadiq on securing a huge mandate to do the best job in British politics”.
Goldsmith’s sister took to twitter to criticise her brother’s campaign, saying it did not “reflect who I know him to be – an eco friendly, independent-minded politician with integrity”.
Khan’s work as a lawyer led to him winning election to a local council in London, then to the House of Commons as a member of the parliament, elected in 2005 in the London constituency of Tooting. His parents immigrated to London from Pakistan.
She announced she would lead a minority administration, and played down talk of a fresh independence referendum to follow the unsuccessful one in 2014.
In a long-delayed result, Khan’s win was confirmed shortly after midnight on Saturday inside London’s futuristic glass and steel city hall. In an op-ed for the Mail on Sunday last week, which was illustrated with an image of the wreckage of the bus that was bombed during the 7/7 attacks, Goldsmith asked, “Are we really going to hand the world’s greatest city to a Labour party that thinks terrorists are its friends?” The opportunities, not just to survive but to thrive”. “And the opportunities for all Londoners to fulfil their potential”.
At the same time, Warsi and Conservative business minister Sajid Javid – who like Khan were also children of Pakistani immigrant bus drivers – both sent their congratulations to the new mayor.
Mr Lammy, who stood against Mr Khan for the Labour mayoral nomination, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme Mr Khan “is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city”.
The British Labour party’s Sadiq Khan has been sworn in as London’s new mayor after comfortably beating his nearest rival, Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith. Because you said he was unfit and can not be trusted, I’m not surprisingly asking the defence secretary of this country if he’s anxious about the safety of London.
Many described Khan’s victory as “historic”.
Leading Conservatives defended their campaign tactics, even as they expressed surprise at losing a post locked down for the past eight years by the eccentrically popular Conservative, Boris Johnson.
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Mr Goldsmith, who was earlier criticised for his campaign which repeatedly referenced Mr Khan sharing a platform with so-called Islamic extremists, congratulated his opponent.
