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Sadiq Khan on Keir Starmer: “Ten years is not realistic”

New Statesman·Anoosh Chakelian·22 days ago
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Photo by Max Miechowski Sadiq Khan is “angry”. The mayor of London, who has been reflecting on a decade in office after three election wins, has seen his party suffer “catastrophic” results in the capital. The Greens won their first councils in London, three of them, plus a mayor, and Reform won its first London council too. The Tories and Lib Dems also increased their number of seats, with Labour losing control of 11 of the 21 London councils it held. The city recently deemed a Labour fortress was breached on all sides. “My anger is made worse by the fact that we saw this coming. We made these promises in advance of July 2024 and it’s been almost two years, and we’ve simply not delivered the pace of change that people voted for,” Khan told me. We met at the London Fire Brigade HQ in central London, where his team occasionally squats when working away from City Hall.…

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