{"id":42968,"date":"2024-05-04T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-trump-called-loser-heads-for-a-3rd-term\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:26:00","slug":"sadiq-khan-london-mayor-trump-called-loser-heads-for-a-3rd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-trump-called-loser-heads-for-a-3rd-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan, London Mayor Trump Called \u2018Loser,\u2019 Heads for a 3rd Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/10\/multimedia\/HFO-04-londonmayor-mcjl\/HFO-04-londonmayor-mcjl-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sadiq Khan, London Mayor Trump Called \u2018Loser,\u2019 Heads for a 3rd Term\" title=\"Sadiq Khan, London Mayor Trump Called \u2018Loser,\u2019 Heads for a 3rd Term\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sadiq Khan, the London mayor once dismissed as a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-48495899\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cstone cold loser\u201d<\/a> by former President Donald J. Trump, was poised on Saturday to become the first three-time winner of the job by a clearer margin than some of his supporters had predicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Khan, from the main opposition Labour Party, was initially elected to the post in 2016, becoming London\u2019s first Muslim mayor, and would now become the first politician to win three consecutive terms since the role was created in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the Labour Party well ahead in the opinion polls ahead of a looming general election, many analysts had expected Mr. Khan to cruise to a comfortable victory in a city that tends to lean to the left, but some saw the potential for an unexpectedly tight race against Susan Hall, representing Britain\u2019s governing Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That prospect quickly faded on Saturday, with Mr. Khan\u2019s party declaring victory and the BBC forecasting him as the winner after results from half of London\u2019s regions showed the mayor exceeding his performance in his last election, in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSadiq Khan was absolutely the right candidate,\u201d said Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party. \u201cHe has got two terms of delivery behind him and I am confident he has got another term of delivery in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The vote itself took place on Thursday along with other local and mayoral elections in which the Conservatives, led by Britain\u2019s embattled prime minister, Rishi Sunak, suffered a series of setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The electoral system for London\u2019s mayor has changed since Mr. Khan was last re-elected in 2021, and the government has also introduced a new requirement for voters to produce photo ID. Some analysts feared that might deter poorer and younger voters among whom Labour tends to poll well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Amid a squeeze on living standards, and with limited powers as London mayor, Mr. Khan had to battle to convince Londoners that he was improving their lives. Opinion polls before the vote gave him a strong lead over his Conservative rival, but a smaller advantage than his party enjoys in national surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hall had campaigned to reduce the area covered by London\u2019s Ultra Low Emission Zone, or ULEZ, an antipollution measure that charges the owners of some older vehicles 12 pounds and 50 pence, about $15.50, for every day they drive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While inner London is a stronghold of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party normally polls significantly better in the more suburban areas of outer London, where a much larger proportion of households own cars. Last year when Mr. Johnson quit Parliament, the Conservatives won a special parliamentary election to replace him in Uxbridge, the district he had represented in outer London, after campaigning against ULEZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The backlash from owners of older vehicles in the area prompted a wider rethink within government over the cost of environmental policies. Not long after the Uxbridge contest <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/20\/world\/europe\/uk-sunak-climate-change.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Sunak announced a weakening<\/a> of Britain\u2019s climate change targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In her campaign Ms. Hall also targeted Mr. Khan\u2019s record on fighting crime in the capital, although one of her party\u2019s attack ads, which showed people running to safety, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/26\/world\/europe\/london-crime-ad-nyc-conservatives.html\" title=\"\">attracted ridicule<\/a> when it emerged that the images used were filmed not in London but at Penn Station in New York in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After finding her wallet missing last year, Ms. Hall <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/good-samaritan-returned-susan-halls-stolen-wallet-thinks-she-dropped-it\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the radio station LBC<\/a> that she thought it had been taken from her pocket on a London Underground train, using the episode as an example of how crime was out of control under Mr. Khan. The wallet was later returned by a retired businessman, who said that he had found it on a train seat and that it appeared to have been lost rather than stolen and discarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hall also faced criticism after previously suggesting that the Notting Hill carnival, a famous annual Caribbean street event in West London, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/aug\/22\/tory-london-mayor-candidate-criticised-notting-hill-carnival\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">should potentially be relocated<\/a> in the interests of public safety, and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/susan-hall-tory-mayoral-candidate-liked-tweet-praising-enoch-powell-zqsr6lvfk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">liking a social media post describing<\/a> Mr. Khan as \u201cthe nipple-high mayor of Londonistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Khan was on the receiving end of a more directly anti-Muslim attack from Lee Anderson, a lawmaker who was suspended from the Conservative parliamentary party after he claimed that Islamists had control of London because Mr. Khan had \u201cgiven our capital city away to his mates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Anderson admitted his remarks were a \u201clittle bit clumsy\u201d but refused to apologize, and later joined Reform U.K., a small right-wing party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it was Mr. Trump who became the London mayor\u2019s best known critic, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/03\/world\/europe\/trump-banquet-meghan-markle-sadiq-khan.html\" title=\"\">feuding with him<\/a> since 2016 on issues including immigration and terrorism. In 2019, after the mayor <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jun\/01\/donald-trump-state-visit-red-carpet-unbritish\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">publicly opposed<\/a> his state visit to Britain, the former president accused Mr. Khan of being \u201cnasty\u201d to him, while misspelling his name and mocking his stature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cKahn reminds me very much of our dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job \u2014 only half his height,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote on social media, invoking another favored target, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-khan-stabbings.html\" title=\"\">Soon afterward<\/a>, Mr. Trump also called the London mayor \u201ca disaster,\u201d citing several stabbings in Britain\u2019s capital, and writing on social media that London needed to replace Mr. Khan as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Given the Mr. Trump is not popular in Britain, the former president\u2019s attacks are unlikely to have damaged Mr. Khan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/04\/world\/europe\/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-results.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiq Khan, the London mayor once dismissed as a \u201cstone cold loser\u201d by former President Donald J. Trump, was poised on Saturday to become the first three-time winner of the job by a clearer margin than some of his supporters had predicted. 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