London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to persuade American tech companies to invest more in London.
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Sadiq Khan has been re-elected as Mayor of London, with the final results revealed on Saturday, giving Labor a commanding lead over the ruling Conservative Party in local elections ahead of the UK national referendum later this year. Contributed.
Mr Khan’s victory, his third in a row, was widely expected despite public anger over knife crime and Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZs), which impose daily fees on drivers of older, more polluting vehicles. Ta.
For Labor, London was the latest of a number of council and mayoral victories in Thursday’s local elections, inflicting major losses on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party.
“It’s been a difficult few months. We’ve faced a constant negative campaign,” Khan said in a speech after the results were revealed, with Conservative candidate Susan Hall receiving 43.8% of the vote to 33%. .
“For the past eight years, London has been swimming against the tide of Tory government, but now that Labor is set to rule again under Keir Starmer, it’s time for Rishi Sunak to give people a choice. .”
Opinion polls predict that Labor will win the next national election, bringing Keir Starmer to power and ending Britain’s 14 years of Conservative government.
Mr Khan, 53, who became the UK capital’s first Muslim mayor in 2016, has pledged to build more social housing and work with a future national Labor government to increase police capacity.