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Mayor says election will be ‘toughest contest of my political life’

Professor Patrick Diamond from Queen Mary University of London tells The Standard Podcast which three key areas could impact Sadiq Khan's mayoral re-election campaign.

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.

London mayoral rivals join forces to condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia

Tory chiefs are under pressure to take action against Mr Anderson over his outburst against the London mayor

Tory candidate for London mayor vows to crack down on knife crime and introduce specialist units to tackle burglaries, robberies and thefts

The young, disabled and armed forces are all entitled to cheaper travel ‘but many of them do not know it’, the mayor has been warned

Rob Blackie said he would put the money saved into policing instead

Ms Hall said that delays to the Brigade’s independent investigation into the firefighter’s death were ‘not fair to anybody’