Laborite Sadiq Khan beat Conservative Sean Bailey by 10%
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Laborite Sadiq Khan won 55.2% of the vote in the second round as mayor of London.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been re-elected for a second term. As in 2016, he ran for the Labor Party. On Saturday, May 8, reports Reuters.
It is reported that Labor Khan received 55.2% of the vote in the second round. His rival is the conservative Sean Bailey – 44.8%.
Khan thanked the voters who cast their votes on social media.
“It will be an honor for me to work for another three years for a city that I love,” he wrote on Twitter.
The elections were supposed to take place a year ago, but they were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laborite Sadiq Khan was elected mayor of London in 2016. He became the first Muslim to lead the British capital.
Khan is also the first British Muslim to become a cabinet minister, alternating between 2008 and 2010 in Gordon Brown’s Labor government as Minister of State for Communities and Secretary of State in the Department of Transportation.
Sadiq Khan was born in 1970 in London to a family of immigrants from Pakistan. He received his law degree, in 2008-2009 he was the junior minister for local government, and in 2009-2010 he was the junior minister of transport in the Gordon Brown government.
Sadiq Khan’s predecessor as mayor was the conservative Boris Johnson, who now heads the British government.
Recall Scottish nationalists recruit most seats in parliament, according to the preliminary results of the vote count, which is still ongoing /
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