Sadiq Khan

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Sadiq Khan (2016)

Sadiq Aman Khan (* 8. October 1970 in London , England ) is a British politician of the Labor Party . He has been Mayor of London since May 7, 2016 . Khan is the first Islamic head of the city in London .

Life

family

Sadiq Khan is of British-Pakistani descent. He was born in 1970 as the fifth of the eight children of Amanullah Khan and his wife Sehrun in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth . His grandfather emigrated from India to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947 . In the 1960s, his parents emigrated from Pakistan to England. The father found a job in England as a bus driver, a job he did for more than 25 years. The mother worked as a seamstress. The large family lived close together in a small council house in Earlsfield (Henry Prince council estate) in Wandsworth, south London.

Sadiq Khan is a Sunni Muslim . Since 1994 he has been married to Saadiya Ahmed, who works as a lawyer . The couple has two daughters.

Education and employment

Khan attended Fircroft Primary School in London and then Ernest Bevin College. There he chose biology , chemistry and mathematics as part of his high school diploma , whereupon one of his teachers convinced him that law was the better choice for him . Khan followed the advice and studied law at the University of North London (since 2002: London Metropolitan University ) and passed his bar exam at the College of Law ( CoL ) in Guildford . He then worked as a human rights lawyer with Louise Christian. He was also the chairman of the Liberty human rights group .

Political activity

1994 Khan was in the city council of Wandsworth elected and held the seat until 2006. After the Labor MP for Tooting, Tom Cox, 2003 announced his resignation had sat, to Khan in internal party primaries as a candidate by. In the 2005 general election, he was elected a member of the lower house with 43.1% of the vote for his home constituency Tooting in London . 2008 Khan Secretary of State (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) in the Ministry for local governments , 2009 Minister of State under Andrew Adonis in the Ministry of Transport. In the 2010 general election , he defended his Tooting constituency against the Conservative Party . He also won this constituency again in the 2015 general election. After his election as Mayor of London, he resigned from his parliamentary mandate.

On September 11, 2015 Khan was in an internal party election as candidate of the Labor Party in the forthcoming election as Mayor of London elected. He received 58.9% of the delegate's votes in the fifth round of voting, while his opponent Tessa Jowell received 41.1%. On May 5, 2016, he was elected the new Mayor of London. This was the first time that a Muslim became the highest representative of an EU capital. He succeeded Boris Johnson , who was no longer a candidate. Khan's most important campaign topic was overcoming the housing shortage due to the rapid rise in real estate prices and rents in the city ( housing crisis ). During his election campaign, politicians from the Conservative Party , u. a. his rival candidate Zac Goldsmith and Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly pointed to alleged connections on his part with Islamic extremists . One of the reasons for this is that Khan, as a human rights attorney, also defended accused Islamic extremists and former inmates of the Guantánamo Bay detention center . Khan denied allegations that he sympathized with or shared their views. After questioning the people concerned, some allegations turned out to be false, such as the connection to the preacher Suliman Gani. His sister Farhat Khan was married to the Islamist Makbool Javaid until 2011 . Sadiq Khan himself was in 2006 at a rally against the Mohammed caricatures in Trafalgar Square , where an extremist speaker literally threatened " fire throughout the world" . Khan was also hostile from Islamic and Islamist sides. After advocating same-sex marriage , he was declared a non-Muslim by a fatwa and received death threats.

His first official act as mayor was to attend an annual Holocaust memorial event ( Yom haScho'a ) at Barnet Copthall Stadium , a rugby stadium in north London. In light of the discussions about anti-Semitic statements by some Labor party friends, including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone , a journalist from tachles magazine saw this as an important symbolic act. After his election, Khan was invited by the Tel Aviv mayor and praised for his position against anti-Semitism.

Before the referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union , Khan, like the majority of Labor politicians, spoke out in favor of the United Kingdom's continued EU membership. In the dispute over the leadership of the Labor Party, which arose after the EU independence referendum, Khan sided with the challenger of the chairman Jeremy Corbyn , the Welsh MP Owen Smith on August 21, 2016 . Corbyn "did not understand how to win the trust and respect of the British people".

Wiretapping

In early February 2008, the Sunday Times alleged that a conversation between Khan and a friend threatened with deportation to the United States had been overheard by the London Metropolitan Police's Anti-Terrorism Division (SO13) . An investigation initiated by Attorney General Jack Straw came to the conclusion that the police had not violated any rules with their actions, in particular the Wilson Doctrine, which although the interception of MPs by order of the Home Secretary, does not generally prohibit.

Web links

Commons : Sadiq Khan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judy Khan QC
  2. ^ Sadiq Khan - Homepage - My story ( Memento from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. a b c George Eaton: The pugilist: Sadiq Khan's quest to become mayor of London. In: New Statesman , March 11, 2016 (English).
  4. ^ Sadiq's Tooting roots - The Henry Prince Estate. In: YouTube , March 25, 2009 (English).
  5. Rosamund Urwin: 'That's the great thing about London: someone from my background can be Mayor': Sadiq Khan on growing up on a council estate and Labor's chances in May. In: Evening Standard , February 23, 2015 (English).
  6. Maajid Nawaz: The Secret Life of Sadiq Khan, London's First Muslim Mayor. In: The Daily Beast , August 5, 2016.
  7. ^ A b Tim Donovan: Sadiq Khan: Labor's choice for Mayor. In: BBC News . September 11, 2015, accessed on September 11, 2015 .
  8. ^ Sadiq Khan resigns as MP for Tooting. Commons Digital Outreach Team, May 10, 2016, accessed May 23, 2016 .
  9. Sadiq Khan becomes the new Mayor of London. In: Die Zeit , May 7, 2016.
  10. Sadiq Khan is the new Mayor of London. In: Spiegel Online , May 7, 2016.
  11. Dave Hill: Cameron left Khan to Suliman Gani despite the cleric's Tory left. In: The Guardian , April 20, 2016 (English).
  12. David Churchill: Exposed: Sadiq Khan's family links to extremist organization. In: Evening Standard , February 12, 2016 (English).
  13. Harry Cole: Extremist views: Labor terror error as Tories fear rout in London mayor contest. In: The Sun , February 8, 2016 (English).
  14. Nicholas Watt: Sadiq Khan says there is 'question to be asked' about use of hijabs in London. In: The Guardian , April 14, 2016 (English).
  15. New mayor on the occasion of the Holocaust . In: tachles . May 9, 2016, accessed June 5, 2017 (only available to registered users).
  16. Helga Embacher, Bernadette Edtmaier, Alexandra Preitschopf: Anti-Semitism in Europe. Case studies of a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, p. 194
  17. ^ Sadiq Khan: Labor must do more for Remain vote. BBC News, June 9, 2016, accessed August 21, 2016 .
  18. Sadiq Khan: Jeremy Corbyn 'failed to win trust of British people'. BBC News, August 21, 2016, accessed August 21, 2016 .
  19. www.met.police.uk
  20. Police bugged Muslim MP Sadiq Khan. In: The Times , February 3, 2008 (English).
  21. Vikram Dodd: Bugging of MP on prison visit did not break the rules, inquiry finds. In: The Guardian . February 22, 2008, accessed May 7, 2010 .
predecessor Office successor
Boris Johnson Mayor of London
since 2016