The British Labour party's Sadiq Khan on 6 May 2016 was elected new Mayor of London. His election as Mayor of London made him the first actively affiliated Muslim to become mayor of a major Western capital.
Khan emerged victorious in the 2016 mayoral elections after defeating Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Zac Goldsmith by 1310143 votes to 994614. Khan assumed the office on 9 May 2016.
Khan succeeds Conservative Party Mayor Boris Johnson.
Who is Sadiq Khan?
• Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician.
• A member of the Labour Party, he is situated on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
• Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, he gained a degree in Law from the University of North London.
• He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights. He chaired Liberty for three years.
• Before being sworn in as the Mayor of London, he previously served as MP for Tooting.
• He was a Councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 before being elected MP for Tooting in 2005.
• Under the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Kahn was appointed Minister of State for Communities in 2008. He later became Minister of State for Transport.
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