Published on May 4, 2024 at 6:34 p.m. / Modified on May 4, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Sadiq Khan said it over and over again that he ended up making it into a rehearsal comedy. “I don’t know if you know this, but I’m the son of a bus driver,” he says to anyone who will listen. The mayor of London, who won a third term in Thursday’s election – the counting of votes ended this Saturday – has been repeating his origin endlessly for years. The child of Pakistani immigrants, who grew up in Tooting, a working-class district in the southwest of the British capital, he is the very embodiment of the success of integration and British social advancement. And that’s its best asset.
Michael Ashcroft, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who conducts very detailed polls of opinion in the United Kingdom, experienced this during numerous roundtables with panels of voters at the end of 2023. “Whatever or the person they voted for, people from all walks of life told us they liked the idea that a Muslim son of a bus driver could become Mayor of London. Even those who think his record is mediocre consider him a decent person who is hard not to like.”
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