Khan was elected Mayor of London at the 2016 mayoral election, defeating the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, and resigned as an MP. A key ally of the next Labour leader, Ed Miliband, he served in Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Minister for London.

Under Blair's successor Gordon Brown, Khan was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in 2008, later becoming Minister of State for Transport. He was openly critical of several policies of Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and new anti-terror legislation. Joining the Labour Party, Khan was a councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 before being elected MP for Tooting at the 2005 general election. He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights issues and chaired the Liberty advocacy group for three years. A member of the Labour Party, Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.īorn in Tooting, South London, to a British Pakistani family, Khan earned a law degree from the University of North London. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016.

Sadiq Aman Khan Hon FRIBA ( / ˈ s ɑː d ɪ k ˈ k ɑː n/ born 8 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016.

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