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OPINION - Londoners are dissatisfied with Sadiq Khan – and look set to hand him a landslide victory

It is difficult to imagine a more benign environment for an incumbent. Sadiq Khan is the Labour candidate in a city that delivered Labour a landslide victory in 2019, even as Jeremy Corbyn led the party to electoral oblivion.

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OPINION - Sadiq Khan may be heading for third term but voters are anxious about crime and housing

Mayor Khan desperately needs a more constructive relationship with central government, writes Patrick Diamond

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Which party will Lee Anderson join next?

Some Reform voices are sceptical about him

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Labour demands Tory London mayor candidate apologise for ‘Islamophobia’

Party chair also calls on Susan Hall to commit not to use further ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ in campaign against Sadiq Khan

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Man arrested after alleged death threat to Rochdale byelection candidate

Greater Manchester police investigating video message sent to Simon Danczuk of Reform UK party

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Why does Labour need to suck up to the City? Britain’s economy is already stifled by finance

In power, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will regret falling for propaganda about ‘competitiveness’, says Nicholas Shaxson, director at the Balanced Economy Project

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OPINION - The Standard View: Polls suggest Sadiq Khan will win, despite dissatisfaction with the mayor

The headline figure suggests the race to be London Mayor is over. A poll in today’s Evening Standard hands Sadiq Khan a 25-point lead over Susan Hall, his Conservative rival, with just 10 weeks to go until polling day.

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Paul Scully apologises for 'no-go areas' comment after uproar in Tower Hamlets

Former London minister ‘sorry’ for comment made amid the fallout of the Lee Anderson row

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'Tower Hamlets is brilliant': East Londoners reject Paul Scully's 'no-go areas' comments

The former London minister claimed parts of the borough were ‘no-go areas, mainly because of doctrine’

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Support for Tories in London hits just 17%, new poll shows with Labour ahead even among pensioners

EXCLUSIVE: YouGov survey for the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London puts Labour on 52% in the capital

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Paul Scully 'regrets' storm after claiming parts of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham are 'no-go areas'

Former mayoral candidate says he was ‘misconstrued’ in interview after he also condemned Lee Anderson

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Lee Anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK

Tory suspended over comments about Sadiq Khan would be populist party’s first MP if he joined

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Jeremy Hunt warned not to spook markets with unfunded budget tax cuts; US consumer confidence drops – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as ING warn the pound could fall by 2% if chancellor misreads the mood of bond investors

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Jeremy Hunt’s ‘dubious’ financial planning lacks credibility, says IFS

Chancellor should resist temptation to announce unfunded tax cuts in March budget, advises leading thinktank

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Tory MP Paul Scully claims there are ‘no-go’ areas in Birmingham and London

Ex-London minister’s comment about areas with large Muslim populations – for which he apologised – described as ‘utter drivel’

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Rishi Sunak in growing storm after failing to condemn Lee Anderson rant as Islamophobic

Prime Minister criticised for not taking a tougher line against Mr Anderson and ‘calling this out for what it is’

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Tory supporters lash out at ‘snake’ Sunak over Lee Anderson suspension

Exclusive: activists endorse Anderson’s comments and decry ‘threat of Islam’ in leaked messages

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Nothing to see here, say Tories of their hero, 30p Lee

Even Rish! has tied himself in knots trying to work out what Anderson should apologise for. Because Lee’s not racist or Islamophobic, is he?

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Speaker accused of breaking promise as he rejects call for new Gaza vote

Sir Lindsay Hoyle tells MPs he was advised that granting fresh vote could be further breach of Commons protocol

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The Guardian view on Islamophobia and the Tories: the problem is bigger than Lee Anderson

Editorial: The remarks from the senior Conservative are symptomatic of the party’s longstanding failure to tackle the issue

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Is Sadiq Khan a good mayor of London? Let’s not pretend the far right cares

From Trump and his supporters to the ‘meatheads’ on GB News, Khan has been under attack ever since he was elected in 2016. Facts don’t come into it, writes Zoe Williams

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‘He’s very controversial, isn’t he?’: how Lee Anderson’s constituents reacted to his comments about Sadiq Khan

In Kirkby-in Ashfield, some call their MP an ‘embarrassment’ while others say ‘he’s telling the truth a lot of people daren’t say’

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Lee Anderson stands by attack on Sadiq Khan and launches fresh broadside

Former Tory deputy chair says ‘when you think you are right, you should never apologise’ because it would be a sign of weakness

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Sunak, his media allies – maybe even Lee Anderson – know Sadiq Khan is no Islamist. This is tactical racism

The label ‘Islamist’ is being used to stir up anti-Muslim feeling for political ends, says Archie Bland, Guardian First Edition newsletter editor

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Lee Anderson's comments were Islamophobic and must be condemned by all

By suggesting that Islamists had “got control of [Sadiq] Khan” and “control of London”, former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson was speaking in patently Islamophobic terms. The Mayor is a Muslim, as are approximately 1.3 million Londoners. To remark that leaves Khan in the pocket of Islamists is racist.

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