{"id":19678,"date":"2016-05-07T06:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T05:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19678"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:04:55","slug":"the-great-city-of-london-has-a-mayor-who-is-muslim-and-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19678","title":{"rendered":"The great city of London has a mayor who is Muslim and Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I voted for a Hindu Navin Shah for the London Assembly and for a Muslim Sadiq Khan to be the London mayor. Of course, I voted for them because they were the Labour candidates, not because of their religion or ethnicity, but I was proud that my political party is so diverse in its candidates. The turnout was 45%, up 7% on four years ago, which is healthy for our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Labour won the Assemby election with 12 seats out of 25. And Sadiq\u00a0Khan won the mayoralty, gaining &#8211; after second preferences came into play &#8211; 56.8% of the vote compared to Conservative Zac Goldsmith&#8217;s tally of 43.2%. In absolute numbers, Khan won 1,310,143 votes &#8211; the largest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.<\/p>\n<p>I am so proud of Khan for fighting such an effective and decent campaign; I am so proud of my city for choosing a Muslim mayor; I am so proud to be part of this democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a fascinating profile of Sadiq Khan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-36140479\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I voted for a Hindu Navin Shah for the London Assembly and for a Muslim Sadiq Khan to be the London mayor. Of course, I voted for them because they were the Labour candidates, not because of their religion or ethnicity, but I was proud that my political party is so diverse in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}