Sadiq Khan

The Right Honourable

Sadiq Khan
The Right Honourable; Sadiq Khan
3rd Mayor of London
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 May 2016
Deputy	Joanne McCartney
Preceded by	Boris Johnson
Leader	In office; 8 October 2010 – 11 May 2015
Shadow Cabinet positions
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice; Shadow Lord Chancellor
	In office; 8 October 2010 – 11 May 2015
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Jack Straw
Succeeded by	The Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Shadow Minister for London
	In office; 16 January 2013 – 11 May 2015
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Tessa Jowell
Succeeded by	Vacant
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
	In office; 14 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting); Ed Miliband
Preceded by	The Lord Adonis
Succeeded by	Maria Eagle
Minister of State for Transport
	In office; 9 June 2009 – 6 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Adonis
Succeeded by	Theresa Villiers
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
	In office; 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Parmjit Dhanda
Succeeded by	Shahid Malik
Assistant Government Whip
	In office; 2 July 2007 – 5 October 2008
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Chief Whip	Geoff Hoon
Member of Parliament; for Tooting
	In office; 5 May 2005 – 9 May 2016
Preceded by	Tom Cox
Succeeded by	Rosena Allin-Khan
Personal details
Born	Sadiq Aman Khan; 8 October 1970 (age 54); Tooting, London, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Saadiya Ahmed (m. 1994)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of North London; University of Law
Awards	Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2018)
Website	Official website

Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970) is a British politician. He is the Mayor of London since 8 May 2016. He was the Shadow Justice Secretary in Ed Miliband's and Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet. He was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Tooting.

Khan was born at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, ^[1]to Pakistani parents on 8 October 1970. He grew up in Earlsfield, London.

Khan worked as a human rights solicitor until the 2005 General Election when he was elected as an MP. He became the Minister of State for Transport from June 2009 to May 2010 and when Ed Miliband became leader of the Labour Party, he was made the Shadow Justice Secretary.^[2]

Khan was chosen to be the Labour Party candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election.^[3] On 6 May 2016, Khan was elected to the office of mayor by winning 57% of the vote.^[4] He became the first Muslim to be elected mayor of a British capital city.^[4] He became mayor on 8 May.

Sadiq Khan Media

Ernest Bevin School in Tooting
British politician Sadiq Khan, in Brighton during the Labour Party Conference.
Khan meeting with British troops stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2008
Sadiq Khan speaking in 2011
Khan orchestrated Ed Miliband's successful campaign to become Labour Leader and later served in Miliband's Shadow Cabinet.
Map of Greater London boroughs showing those that voted for Khan (red) and Goldsmith (blue) in the 2016 mayoral election
Khan and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at London City Hall, October 2016
Khan at Pride in London, July 2017
Harrow-on-the-Hill station deserted during the pandemic in August 2020
Khan on a visit to Amritsar, India in 2018