Sadiq Khan Re Elected As London Mayor Despite Tory Surge
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Sadiq Khan has won the London mayoralty for Labour despite a Tory surge in the capital.
Khan clinched a second term at City Hall after winning 45% to challenger Shaun Bailey’s 35%.
The London mayor’s win followed more comprehensive metro mayoral victories for Andy Burnham in greater Manchester and Steve Rotheram in Liverpool. Labour also triumphed in the Welsh parliament.
Khan’s win, plus other victories for Labour in the West of England and Cambridgeshire mayoral races, provided much needed relief for Keir Starmer after heavy defeats to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election and other parts of England.
One poll recently put Khan way ahead of Bailey, but the London result was much tighter.
Several Labour activists reported difficulty in motivating the party’s inner city working class vote, while the Conservatives mobilised their forces in outer London.
In the end, Khan held off the Tory surge and Labour performed even better in London Assembly seats.
In Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon was reinstalled as first minister as the SNP fell just short of an overall majority in the Holyrood parliament.
After her party’s fourth successive victory in the Scottish parliament elections, Sturgeon said her win was a mandate for a new independence referendum.
Boris Johnson received yet another boost when Tory Andy Street retained the West Midlands metro mayoralty with an increased share of the vote.
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