Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeLaurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit paid to run for London Mayor after getting just 1.8% of the votes in the capital. Labour's Sadiq Khan was re-elected as Mayor of London in a closer contest than many had predicted. Opinion polls had suggested his Conservative rival Shaun Bailey would be a distant second in the race for City Hall. Mr Khan was first elected mayor of the capital in 2016 in a landslide victory, breaking the Conservatives' eight-year hold on City Hall. Mr Khan was first elected mayor of the capital in 2016 in a landslide victory, breaking the Conservatives' eight-year hold on City Hall.

Source: Daily Mirror May 08, 2021 22:21 UTC