London Mayor Sadiq Khan is running for a second term.
The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party is a firm favourite to be returned to City Hall for a second stint. As long as Londoners continue to trust me to be their mayor, I´m currently in this job, Khan told
AFP.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, running for re-election Thursday, has risen from humble roots to spar with prime ministers and presidents since taking charge of the British capital five years ago.
The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party, a former human rights lawyer brought up on a London public housing complex, is a firm favourite to be returned to City Hall for a second stint.
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At last month’s London Mayoral Hustings on ending violence against women and girls, Mandu Reid, leader of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP), did not hide her disappointment with the other participants. Why, she asked, was she the only mayoral contender to show up? Only weeks after Sarah Everard’s killing, were the major parties revealing how little they care about the violence that women face? Reid certainly thinks so, as she told me over Zoom recently. The 40-year-old, who has fronted the party since April 2019 and is the first person of colour to lead a British political party, is running with a manifesto that prioritises “building back equal”, as opposed to “better”. Action on violence against women and girls is a major plank, as is a “care revolution”.
Now running on a platform of investing in London’s “social infrastructure”, free childcare and workers’ wellbeing, Ms Reid has a vision for the capital.
Mandu is encouraging people to share their votes with equality on May 6
- Credit: Mandu Reid/ Women s Equality Party
She has vowed to make London the UK’s first sanctuary city for migrant women seeking refuge from violence, and says simply adding “more bobbies on the beat” won’t make women safer.
Instead, sexual violence must become “socially unacceptable” through public health campaigns similar to those about drink-driving, and teach children about sexual consent from primary school level.