UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I therefore declare Sadiq Khan to be elected as the new mayor of London. The cockroaches have invaded dear old London. A prominent figure in former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet, he resigned from the shadow Cabinet past year to launch his campaign to replace Boris Johnson – whose second and final term ended on Saturday.
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Mr Grima tagged his comment to a story uploaded by the pro-Israeli website supportisraelnow.com.
The result was the largest mandate for a sole candidate in British electoral history after a campaign marked by attempts to link Khan to extremists.
He said: “Sadiq Khan very kindly met with British Cycling during his election campaign, and it was both interesting and encouraging to hear his pledges for cycling in London, which included increasing the proportion of Transport for London spending on cycling”.
Jenny Gross, a reporter for the “Wall Street Journal“, has been covering the election and joins us via Skype from London.
She added: “I’m very sad for him. with a family man like Zac, who’s mad about his children and likes to be with them the whole time, I think being mayor would have been a hard juggle for him, but he would have made a very good one”.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe was among the first due to meet with Mr Khan as he settles into his new office at City Hall today.
He would be stepping down as MP for Tooting to take charge of his new City Hall role, which will trigger a by-election in the east London constituency.
“I’m determined to lead the most transparent, engaged and accessible administration London has ever seen”.
London’s previous Labour Party mayor, Ken Livingstone, was suspended last in April from the party after he claimed that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist.
And the Labour leader didn’t attend Khan’s swearing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral due to “capacity problems”, which is probably an excuse those in charge of seating in the Cathedral don’t hear that often.
Indicating that Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn was failing to appeal to a wide enough electorate, he said, “Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone – not just its own activists”.
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By the time the report ended, Vigliotti still had not recounted any details of Khan’s connections to Muslim extremists or explained why his conservative critics did not have “facts” on their side.
