Words matter. These are the best Sadiq Khan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn’t anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor – Brexit.
It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m miserable during Ramadan. Some would say I’m miserable all year round, but it does affect my mood.
The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.
All Western cities face significant challenges on social integration. Our populations are booming, but social integration is not keeping pace. Rapid growth is a sign of our success, but it also puts stress on housing, infrastructure – and on communities.
I’ve spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.
More than 300 languages are spoken in London. Religions are freely practiced. Rich and poor live on the same street, side by side. We’ve actually escaped many of the most difficult problems – integration and community cohesion.
Londoners, Mancunians, and Brits across the country will never, ever be cowed by terrorism.
My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.
The best way for people to understand each other’s faith is to share experiences.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught me that governing – driving change and delivering results – is even harder.
People end up on the street for many different reasons – leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup – and so the help they need is varied, too.
One of the things that’s important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.
Being subjected to Islamophobic abuse makes integration less likely and amplifies the views of the extremists rather than the mainstream. It’s divisive and dangerous and puts British lives at risk.
Thousands of people’s lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You’d think a very Tory thing to do. Sadly not, under Cameron’s leadership.
Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.
I never understood how much running changes your life. I’m now obsessed. When not trying to beat my personal best, I’m talking to other people about theirs, reading training advice or eating the perfect balance of carbs and protein.
Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.
I value loyalty and believe that internal disagreements shouldn’t be voiced in the media – because divided parties lose elections.
Everyone – regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age – should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.
Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.
I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called ‘Stand Up for Labour’ where we’d go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.
Muslims, like most other voters, don’t just want ‘one of their own,’ they want someone who best represents their values.
The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren’t perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I’m proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.
Every time there is a terrorist incident involving evil fanatics who abuse the name of Islam, ordinary, law-abiding Muslims pay a heavy price.
Like most people, my parents were only able to fulfil their dreams because there was support. A council home so they could save for a deposit to buy a home of their own. Fantastic local state schools where my own daughters go now. Affordable university places and good quality apprenticeships.
London made my family and myself.
It’s too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon – to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.
Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.
Islam is misunderstood by many. The extremists grab the headlines; those of us who want to practise our religion and live under this country’s laws do not make the news.
If I’m honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you’re more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!
Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted – legal aid helps achieve this.
Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.
As an ethnically Asian Muslim, born and bred in this country, I am British. I have never felt a conflict between my country, my religion, and my background.
My family has always been proud of being British.
I’m a proud Londoner, a Brit, European, of Pakistani heritage, a Muslim – we all have multiple layers of identity – that’s what makes us who we are.
Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.
As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest mayor London has ever had – it is not acceptable that 10,000 people die in London every year because our air is so filthy.
Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn’t make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public’s safety.
The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.
It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.
I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.
Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.
Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.
London is the greatest city in the world.
I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I’m still getting selfied. It’s nice, though. It’s a nice problem to have.
We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.
I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.
Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.
Opportunity must be underpinned by security – and Labour must offer that security.
I look forward to the day that I can go with my daughters to the polling station for them to cast their first vote.
Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will – that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.
I am deeply humbled by the hope and trust that Londoners have placed in me. I grew up on a council estate just a few miles from City Hall, and I never imagined that Londoners would one day elect someone like me to lead our great capital city.
I’ve had the honour of being elected as a Labour councillor, MP and mayor, thanks to the hard work of Labour members, and I believe that the will of our membership should be respected.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.
There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I’m hugely proud of what we’ve been able to achieve in just the first year.
Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work – for those within it and for those it protects.
We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.
