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Sadiq Khan

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Sadiq Khan’s voice comes through in more than a hundred brief statements. They sketch a picture of a mayor balancing ambition with pragmatism, offering a glimpse of how he frames public service.

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[Wikipedia] Sir Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician who has served as Mayor of London since 2016. He was previously the member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party, Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.

Quotes by Sadiq Khan

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

Adversity

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It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.

Diversity

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Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

Bankers

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Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

Ethnic

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Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

Aid

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Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.

Affair

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My biggest concern is security and keeping Londoners safe.

Concern

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London made my family and myself.

Family

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Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.

Court

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There is a role that Muslims in the public eye play: to reassure people that we are OK.

Eye

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Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.

Achieve

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We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.

Celebrate

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The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

British

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How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?

Ifs

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Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.

Individual rights

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Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.

Book

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We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people…

Confidence

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Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement…

Beyond

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All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught…

Change

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I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson…

Come

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I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where…

Comedy

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I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure…

America

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Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential…

Age

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As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of…

I am

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Raising the congestion charge won't necessarily make a difference. Rather than increasing the amount you pay in congestion charge, we should be…

Amount

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London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New…

Berlin

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We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are…

Class

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Like most people, my parents were only able to fulfil their dreams because there was support. A council home so they could…

Dreams

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London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a…

America

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Legal aid gets a bad press. Some rail against handing taxpayers' money to criminals; others attack fat cat lawyers, while some argue…

Bad

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London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say…

Arrogance

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Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the…

Cybersecurity

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Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

Europe

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Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

Accepted

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Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.

Contribute

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London is the greatest city in the world.

City

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My family has always been proud of being British.

Always

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Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.

Answers

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I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

Candidate

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How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

Customer

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Sadiq Khan by topic

London (25) People (17) Islam (15) Israel (10) Ifs (8)