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2015 London Labour Party Mayoral Selection
The London Labour Party mayoral selection of 2015 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London, to stand in the mayoral election on 5 May 2016. It was the first Mayoral selection process since 2002 not to feature Ken Livingstone as a candidate. Timetable *13 May 2015: Applications opened *20 May 2015 (12:00): Applications closed, Constituency Labour Party (CLP) nominations opened *10 June 2015: CLP nominations closed *12 June 2015: Selection Committee determines short-list *13 June 2015: Short-list announced *17 June 2015: First hustings, held in Camden *21 June 2015: Second hustings, held in Stratford *15 July 2015: Third hustings, held in Ealing *24 July 2015: Fourth hustings, held in Hornsey & Wood Green *30 July 2015: Final hustings, held in Southwark *12 August 2015 (12:00): Last date to join as an affiliated support or registered supporter of the Labour Party in London and be eligible to vote *14 August 2015: Ballot papers dispatc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadiq Khan (cropped)
Sadiq Aman Khan (, ; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He was previously Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting (UK Parliament constituency), Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a Social democracy, social democrat. Born in Tooting, South London, to a British Pakistanis, British Pakistani family, Khan earned a law degree from the University of North London. He subsequently worked as a solicitor specialising in human rights issues and chaired the Liberty (advocacy group), Liberty advocacy group for three years. Joining the Labour Party, Khan was a councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 before being elected MP for Tooting at the 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 general election. He was openly critical of several policies of Labour Prime M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
