This year's London Mayoral election is expected to go down to the wire as more than five million London voters head to the polls in less than five weeks.
This year's London Mayoral election is expected to go down to the wire as more than five million London voters head to the polls in less than five weeks.
But he is being put to the test by Conservative candidate Susan Hall, who is hoping to capitalise on anger over Khan's ULEZ expansion which has charged drivers millions of pounds in fines since it was introduced last year. Although, just a quarter of Londoners are satisfied with his performance in the role, according to the same poll.
He promised to unleash 'the greatest council house building drive in a generation' and to double his previous goal to start building 20,000 council homes, which he hit last year. The mother-of-two has centred her London mayoral campaign around putting a stop to Sadiq Khan's much hated ULEZ scheme. Last month, Ms Hall pledged to introduce 'knife arches' into every school in London if she is elected in a bid to tackle knife crime across the capital.
Binface announced he was throwing his hat in the ring earlier this month, declaring it is time to 'take the trash out' and claiming he is the 'only fresh thing on the menu given all other politicians are rubbish'. Launching her campaign earlier this week, Ms Garbett took shots at both Labour and the Conservatives.
Rob Blackie - Liberal Democrats Rob Blackie, the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, has said his number one priority is to 'fix' the Metropolitan Police force. Mr Blackie said he would keep a freeze on a single bus fare at £1.75, but would redirect the remaining £117 million to reform the Met. Howard Cox - Reform UK Despite admitting being a 'lifelong Conservative voter', Howard Cox says he chose to represent Reform UK because 'a vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour's Sadiq Khan'.
'They don't need another elitist politician only interested in self-promotion through baseless virtue signalling. Earlier this week it was revealed that actor Laurence Fox would not be a candidate at the London mayoral elections after he failed to fill in the nomination forms properly. The email said Mr Fox's nomination as a London-wide assembly member candidate was valid, and added his party would be refunded the £20,000 fee and deposit paid for the mayoral nomination, plus another £5,000 Reclaim had overpaid 'in error'.
Candidate Laurence Fox walks past candidate Count Binface upon arriving for the results of the London mayoral election, at City Hall on May 8, 2021
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