LONDON: Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London’s mayor, remaining outcomes confirmed on Saturday (Could 4), serving to to cement the Labour Get together’s commanding lead over the governing Conservatives in native elections forward of Britain’s nationwide vote later this 12 months.
Khan’s victory, his third in a row, was extensively anticipated regardless of some public anger over knife crime and the Extremely Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which fees drivers of older, extra polluting automobiles a day by day charge.
London is the newest of dozens of English councils and mayoralties that Labour has gained within the native elections that occurred on Thursday, inflicting heavy losses on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.
“It has been a tough few months, we confronted a marketing campaign of continuous negativity,” Khan stated in a speech after the outcomes confirmed he had gained 43.8 per cent of the vote in opposition to 33 per cent for the Conservatives’ candidate, Susan Corridor.
“For the final eight years, London has been swimming in opposition to the tide of a Tory (Conservative) authorities and now with a Labour Get together that is prepared to control once more below Keir Starmer, it is time for Rishi Sunak to offer the general public a selection.”
