OVER 250 PEOPLE have shown support to Mayor of London Candidate Sadiq Khan (Labour Party) at a dinner they attended at Regency Banqueting Suite last Friday evening (26 February).
The event which was organised by former Tottenham Council MP Nilgün Cansev and Haringey Council MP Emine Ibrahim, also saw Labour Party’s Tottenham MP David Lammy and Edmonton MP Kate Osamor attend.
Guests also included MPs from various North London Councils and guests from the CHP party in Turkey. Turkish singer Atilla Ataş, directors of the political organisation, Turkısh, Kurdish, Greek and British businessman and members of the public also attended the dinner.
Turkish and Turkish Cypriot Council members who were also guests on the night included: Can Özsen from Hackney Council, Emine İbrahim, Makbule Güneş and Peray Ahmet from Harıngey Council and Ayfer Orhan, Ahmet Öykener, Cansev Cemal and Yasemin Brett from Enfield Council.
Ahead of the local elections to be held on the 5th May, Candidate Sadiq Khan also gave a speech discussing his aims to commit to should he be elected.
He criticised MP Zac Goldsmith who is in the opposition (Conservative Party) and spoke of his proposals, these included freezing the prices of public transport for four years, to introduce a bus ticket which can be used for an hour, challenging air pollution, to provide opportunity for citizens to become home-owner according to their incomes, to challenge home-owners who are renting their properties at a high rate despite them being in bad conditions, and to make the streets of London safer for cyclists.
In discussing Zac Goldsmith, Khan said: “He isn’t somebody who can relate to the people of London. He is from a wealthy family and because of this he hasn’t ever worked in your everyday job, he won’t be able to understand you.”
WHO IS SADIQ KHAN?
Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he is standing as the party’s candidate to be Mayor of London in the 2016 mayoral election. Ideologically, he is situated on the social democratic wing of the party.
Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan attained a degree in Law at the University of North London. He subsequently began work as a solicitor specialising in human rights. Khan was a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006.
