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Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970) is a British politician who has served as the Mayor of London since May 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he is situated on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat. Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan gained a degree in Law from the University of North London. He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights, and chaired Liberty for three years. Joining Labour, Khan was a Councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 before being elected MP for Tooting in 2005. Under the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown he was appointed Minister of State for Communities in 2008, later becoming Minister of State for Transport. A key ally of 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. Khan was elected Mayor of London in the 2016 mayoral election, succeeding Conservative Party Mayor Boris Johnson. His election made him the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. He announced that he would resign as MP for Tooting "as soon as possible".