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Labour’s Sadiq Khan has already served two terms as London’s mayor – Copyright AFP JUSTIN TALLIS<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nJames PHEBY<\/em><\/p>\nSadiq Khan, who was Saturday re-elected for a record third term as London mayor, rose from humble roots to spar with world leaders and bring consequential change to the British capital.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old Labour party politician \u2014 a former human rights lawyer brought up on a London public housing complex \u2014 comfortably defeated Conservative rival Susan Hall for a third stint at City Hall.<\/p>\n
He now overtakes predecessor Boris Johnson as the longest-serving holder of the post, which notably has powers over the emergency services, transport and planning in the city of nearly nine million.<\/p>\n
Victory continues a remarkable journey for the Pakistani immigrant bus driver\u2019s son, who became the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital when initially elected in 2016.<\/p>\n
As mayor, he has made a name for himself as a vocal critic of Brexit and successive Conservative prime ministers, including Johnson, as well as for a feud with former US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The pair became embroiled in an extraordinary war of words after Khan criticised Trump\u2019s travel ban on people from certain Muslim countries.<\/p>\n
Trump then accused Khan of doing a \u201cvery bad job on terrorism\u201d and called him a \u201cstone cold loser\u201d and a \u201cnational disgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n
The mayor in turn allowed an infamous blimp of Trump dressed as a baby in a nappy to fly above protests in Parliament Square during his 2018 visit to Britain.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe once called me a stone cold loser. Only one of us is a loser, and it\u2019s not me,\u201d Khan told AFP during his 2021 campaign.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Knife crime \u2013<\/p>\n
But Khan\u2019s own tenure has not been without its controversies, particularly over last year\u2019s expansion of an\u00a0Ultra-Low Emission Zone into the largest pollution-charging scheme in the world.<\/p>\n
The daily toll on the most-polluting vehicles prompted a fierce backlash in outer boroughs of Greater London, with anger at the extra financial burden during a cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n
Khan has also been criticised for failing to get to grips with high levels of knife crime and since last year, his handling of large weekly pro-Palestinian protests.<\/p>\n
Born in London in 1970 to parents who had recently arrived from Pakistan, Khan was the fifth child out of seven brothers and one sister.<\/p>\n
He grew up in public housing in Tooting, an ethnically mixed residential area in south London, and slept in a bunk-bed until he was 24.<\/p>\n
His modest background plays well in a city that is proud of its diversity and loves a self-made success story.<\/p>\n
Khan still regularly recalls how his father drove one of London\u2019s famous red buses, and his mother was a seamstress.<\/p>\n
He is a handy boxer, having learnt the sport to defend himself in the streets against those who hurled racist abuse at him, and two of his brothers are boxing coaches.<\/p>\n
He initially wanted to become a dentist, but a teacher spotted his gift for verbal sparring and directed him towards law.<\/p>\n
He gained a law degree from the University of North London and started out as a trainee lawyer in 1994 at the Christian Fisher legal firm, where he was eventually made a partner.<\/p>\n
He specialised in human rights, and spent three years chairing the civil liberties campaign group Liberty.<\/p>\n
He represented Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, and Babar Ahmad, a mosque acquaintance who was jailed in the United States after admitting providing support to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Higher ambitions? \u2013<\/p>\n
Khan joined Labour aged 15 when Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher was in her pomp.<\/p>\n
He became a local councillor for Tooting in the Conservative-dominated Wandsworth local borough in 1994, and its member of parliament in 2005.<\/p>\n
He still lives in the area with his lawyer wife Saadiya and their two teenage daughters.<\/p>\n
Labour prime minister Gordon Brown made him \u00a0communities minister in 2008 and he later served as transport minister, becoming the first Muslim minister to attend Cabinet meetings.<\/p>\n
In parliament, he voted for gay marriage \u2014 which earned him death threats.<\/p>\n
As mayor, he vowed to focus on providing affordable homes for Londoners and freezing transport fares, but \u2014 like many in power around the world \u2014 saw his agenda engulfed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n
He is London\u2019s third mayor after Labour\u2019s Ken Livingstone (2000-2008) and Johnson (2008-2016), with widespread speculation he could eventually try to follow in his predecessor and become prime minister.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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