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Sadiq Khan (LEON NEAL / AFP)

Sadiq Khan segrar – blir ny borgmästare i London

Labours kandidat Sadiq Khan besegrar Tories Zac Goldsmith i borgmästarvalet i London, rapporterar Sky News.
Segern gör Khan till den första muslimska borgmästaren i huvudstaden.
Goldsmith har enligt Sky News försökt göra extremistiska kopplingar till Khan, något som inte tycks ha lämnat avtryck hos väljarna.
Nu börjar den stora gissningsleken med att klura ut vad utgången i regionalvalet innebär för folkomröstningen om EU i slutet av juni.
London-valet lär få störst inflytande, med tanke på att kampen om borgmästarposten stod mellan uttalat EU-vänlige Khan och EU-kritiske Goldsmith.

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Sadiq Khan
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Sadiq Aman Khan (Urdu: صادق امان خان‎; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician and solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party, he is standing as the party's candidate to be Mayor of London in the 2016 mayoral election. Ideologically, he is situated on the moderate social democratic wing of the party. Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan gained a degree in law at the University of North London. He subsequently began work as a solicitor specialising in human rights. Khan was a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Communities by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, becoming the second British Pakistani to serve in government. Khan later served as Minister of State for Transport. He joined the Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in 2010. On 16 January 2013 he was also appointed Shadow Minister for London; on 11 May 2015 he resigned from the shadow cabinet to seek nomination as the Labour Party's mayoral candidate. On 11 September 2015, Khan was selected as the Labour candidate to run for the London mayoralty.

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