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Sadiq Aman Khan (born October 8, 1970) is a British Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tooting in the 2005 general election, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat. October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (282nd in leap years). ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
Tooting is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ...
Thomas Michael Cox (born January 19, 1930) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. ...
He is a member of the Public Accounts Committee A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a parliamentary committee responsible for overseeing government expenditures to ensure they are effective and honest. ...
Background
Khan was born in 1970 in London. He grew up in a council flat on the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield, and attended Fircroft and Ernest Bevin Schools, before going to university to study Law. He completed the Law Society finals at the College of Law in Guildford and trained as a Human Rights Solicitor. He then set up a firm (Christian Khan) with Louise Christian, a left-winger who stood for the Socialist Alliance in Hornsey and Wood Green in the 2001 general election. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Earlsfield is an area within the London Borough of Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom. ...
Louise Christian is an award-winning British human rights lawyer. ...
The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England in existence between 1992 and 2005. ...
Hornsey and Wood Green is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...
He was a visiting lecturer at the University of North London, and a former governor of South Thames FE College. Khan was Chair of Liberty (NCCL) and has been Vice Chair of Legal Action Group (LAG) Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. ...
Political career Khan had been a Councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth since 1994.
In 2003, Tooting Constituency Labour Party decided to open its parliamentary selection to all interested candidates, including the incumbent MP since 1970, Tom Cox. This prompted Mr Cox, in his mid 70s, to announce his retirement rather than risk deselection. In the subsequent selection contest, Khan beat five other local candidates to become Labour's Parliamentary candidate. A Constituency Labour Party (CLP) is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales. ...
Thomas Michael Cox (born January 19, 1930) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Khan remained a councillor until the May 2006 council elections. He is also a governor of Fircroft School, which his daughters now attend, and of Gatton School.
Khan was awarded 'Newcomer of the Year' by the Spectator Magazine Parliamentarian of the Year awards 2005. The Spectator is a British conservative political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ...
In August 2006, he was a signatory of an open letter to Tony Blair criticising the UK's foreign policy. [1] Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North East England. ...
Several of Khan's family members are members of the Islamic political party, Hizb ut-Tahrir, who Tony Blair initially threatened to ban in August 2005 before deciding that there was no evidence to justify a ban. It has been suggested that Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom be merged into this article or section. ...
See also Tooting is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. ...
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 700,000 members. ...
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External links - Sadiq Khan MP official site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Sadiq Khan MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Sadiq Khan MP
- The Labour Party's Tooting website
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