Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan is the current Mayor of London, former MP and human rights lawyer. He has had an extensive political career, most recently winning an unprecedented third term as Mayor. Prior to the mayoralty, Sadiq was an MP and member of the Shadow Cabinet under Ed Miliband where he held the posts of Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Chancellor, and Minister for London.
In conversation with Will Hutton a leading political economist, author and journalist. His long and storied career has taken him from the City as an investment banker, the Economics editorship of the Guardian and BBC2 Newsnight , the editorship of the Observer, the chief executive of the Work Foundation and Principal of Hertford College Oxford.

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Sadiq Khan is the current Mayor of London, former MP and human rights lawyer. He has had an extensive political career, most recently winning an unprecedented third term as Mayor. Prior to the mayoralty, Sadiq was an MP and member of the Shadow Cabinet under Ed Miliband where he held the posts of Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Chancellor, and Minister for London.
In conversation with Will Hutton a leading political economist, author and journalist. His long and storied career has taken him from the City as an investment banker, the Economics editorship of the Guardian and BBC2 Newsnight , the editorship of the Observer, the chief executive of the Work Foundation and Principal of Hertford College Oxford.

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