Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be London Mayor after getting 1.8 per cent of the vote.
The actor, 42, who set up the Reclaim Party for his election race, won 47,634 votes placing him in sixth, behind YouTuber Niko Omilana whose policies included Boris Johnson will be forced to shush and the price of Fredos will go back to 5p .
Candidates need five per cent of first-preference votes to get back their deposits, which only three candidates surpassed: Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey and the Green s Sian Berry.
Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be London Mayor after getting 1.8 per cent of the vote
The 42-year-old actor, whose Reclaim Party campaigned on an anti-lockdown platform, lost his £10,000 deposit after winning just 1.8 per cent of the vote, compared with Sadiq Khan s 55 per cent.
Sadiq Khan was today relishing his election victory as he retweeted congratulations from from left-wing mayors across the world.
Out for a walk with dog Luna this afternoon, the newly re-elected London Mayor was taking his more than 200,000-vote majority in his stride.
Mr Khan polled 1,206,034 votes to Conservative challenger Shaun Bailey s 977, 601, after failing to win in first preference votes alone.
But despite seeing his majority cut from 2016 s result there was an outpouring of congratulatory messages with several coming from left-wing mayors around the globe which Mr Khan was happy to retweet.
Sadiq Khan was today relishing his election victory as he retweeted congratulations from from left-wing mayors across the world