Sadiq Khan

“I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.”

“As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest mayor London has ever had - it is not acceptable that 10,000 people die in London every year because our air is so filthy.”

“Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.”

“We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.”

“You know that running bug people talk about? Well, I've been well and truly bitten.”

“I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.”

“I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.”

“It's too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon - to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.”

“More than 300 languages are spoken in London. Religions are freely practiced. Rich and poor live on the same street, side by side. We've actually escaped many of the most difficult problems - integration and community cohesion.”

“I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice problem to have.”

“When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'”

“Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.”

“There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year.”

“I've had the honour of being elected as a Labour councillor, MP and mayor, thanks to the hard work of Labour members, and I believe that the will of our membership should be respected.”

“Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the welfare state established at the same time as our legal aid system - being diagnosed with a major illness and needing the NHS, or losing a job and needing the support of social security.”

“It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.”

“The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.”

“My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.”

“I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.”

“People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too.”