“Thank you London. London is the greatest city in the world”. But there are two lessons in particular.
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“There’s no point in us just speaking to Labour voters, our core vote”.
“Secondly, we will never be trusted to govern unless we reach out and engage with all voters – regardless of their background, where they live or where they work”.
The 45-year-old mayor, who is the son of a Pakistani bus driver and was elected by an overwhelming mandate earlier this week, said he wanted to focus on issues like transport and housing in London. His parents were Pakistani immigrants.
DUBLIN (AP) – London’s newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public engagement in office – and received a hero’s welcome from London’s Jewish community at the end. As Khan stepped to the microphone to speak, a minor party candidate for the extreme nationalist Britain First party turned his back.
London has a unique racial and ethnic mix.
In his speech, Mr Goldsmith said: “I’m dissapointed of course by the result, that I won’t be able to deliver a manifesto that I’m really proud of”. However, Corbyn still enjoys some of the highest levels of membership in the party. “His remarks came as senior Tories, including Mohammed Amin, chair of the Conservative Muslim Forum, broke cover to criticise their own party’s campaign as divisive and deeply unpleasant”.
He argued that it had “alienated” some voters, and former Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi claimed the campaign had damaged the Conservative Party’s reputation on race and religion. “Londoners thought they were buttering their bread by voting in an Islamic Mayor but with the butter they allowed in the cockroaches”, Mr Grima wrote on Facebook.
The new mayor, Sadiq Khan, did not have a privileged start in life.
The Tooting MP won the keys to City Hall with 1,310,143 votes to Zac Goldsmith’s 994,614. Zac Goldsmith appealed to Islamophobia in his mayoral campaign.
The Chancellor refused to condemn Donald Trump, whose plan to ban Muslims from the USA he branded “nonsense” – but offered his clear support to Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump has been accused of racism too many times to count.
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Rivals also tried to mar his campaign by accusing Mr. Khan of “legitimizing” extremist views but these tactics failed to win over votes for them as residents of London rejected this jaundiced viewpoint and demonstrated once again that Britain was a liberal and tolerant society.
