“The decency of Londoners, the decency of British people, will always cut through”, he said at a swearing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral in south London.
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‘I hope it’s something the Conservative Party will never try to repeat, ‘ Mr Khan said.
Khan, the whose parents were Pakistani immigrants to Britain pledged to be “a mayor for all Londoners”, and attended a reception as part of the Yom HaShoah ceremony at the Barnet Copthall Stadium in north London.
During the mayoral campaign, which was run by Tory strategist Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives repeatedly said Mr Khan had questions to answer over his sharing a platform with so-called extremists.
Jenny, one million of London’s eight million residents are Muslim, a quarter of the city is foreign born.
With the refugee influx into Europe causing a lurch to the right in favour of anti-immigration parties, many other European Union politicians will have kept a close watch on the London mayoral campaign to see how they can balance western liberal values with electability.
“… As became blatantly obvious with the election of Labour’s Islamist mayor, there is an increasingly shrinking number of Britons left in the capital overall and far too many Muslims”, she said. He won an impressive majority last night and we look forward to working with him, working with a Conservative government to continue the investment and growth in this great capital city of ours that Boris Johnson managed so successfully by working alongside a Conservative government.
He added: “Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone – not just its own activists”.
Mr Khan defended his work as a human rights lawyer, and he has said he hopes Mr Donald Trump – the presumptive Republican presidential candidate who has called for barring Muslims from entering the United States – “loses badly”.
‘That is a message that Jeremy Corbyn needs to listen to and I think it’s a message that he will listen to’.
After seeing his party beaten into a humiliating third place in Scotland behind the Tories and losing council seats in England on Thursday, Mr Corbyn was desperate to be seen with triumphant a Mr Khan.
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Posting on Twitter, Mr Barwell said Labour’s victory had not been the result of demographic change but because his party had not shown Mr Goldsmith’s true character.
