Elections: Labour's Sadiq Khan 'set to win London mayoral race'
Source: BBC
Sadiq Khan looks set to become the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland's elections.
Mr Khan, who would be the city's first Muslim mayor, is on course for victory over Conservative Zac Goldsmith.
The result would bolster leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost English councillors.
In Scotland, the SNP said it would form a minority government after winning its third election in a row in Scotland.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-36232392
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts){...} Simon Usborne, writing in The Independent, compared her use of the word "cockroach" to previous uses by the Nazis and just before the Rwandan Genocide by its perpetrators.
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malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Centuries of old imperialists must be spinning in their graves under Westminster Abbey.
I confess I have no idea who Katie Hopkins is, and it would seem from her quote that I lose nothing by it.
-- Mal
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)and you've got Hopkins. She was a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice, and she's since made a living by saying nasty things about people.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... but I will try to encompass it ** shudder **
-- Mal
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)T_i_B
(14,747 posts)I originally thought that Goldsmith would win easily, but he fought a dreadful, bigoted campaign.
Sadiq Khan by contrast proved to be a very good candidate.