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Hace 2 días · This characterization was particularly visible in the 2016 London mayoral campaign of Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith, who linked the Labour candidate Sadiq Khan, a British Muslim who went on to win the race, to extremism. 11 Little changed in 2020, as the Conservatives chose Shaun Bailey to run against Khan, despite the former’s past anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Hace 1 día · Launched with a skeleton team in February 2020, the Bezos Earth Fund aims to give away US$10bn (£7.9bn) of the Amazon founder’s $200bn personal fortune to combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss by the end of the decade. So far, it has issued more than 230 grants worth $2bn, funding initiatives from AI environmental solutions to ...
Hace 5 días · In 2016, he backed the Tory party’s Zac Goldsmith—brother of Jemima Goldsmith and former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s brother-in-law—for mayor of London. Goldsmith lost. Eight years later, Panesar himself came close to joining frontline politics.
Hace 4 días · Khan’s Conservative opponent, Zac Goldsmith, lacked Johnson’s charisma. With London becoming an increasingly Labour city (Labour won significantly more votes there than the Conservatives did in 2015), Khan defied the expectations of some that his Muslim religion would diminish his appeal.
Hace 5 días · Worse than standing in her party’s dark shadow, Hall, like Zac Goldsmith and Shaun Bailey before her, was strikingly out of touch with the capital’s voters – all three were Brexiteers in a city that voted 60 per cent Remain in 2016, and may be even more that way inclined today.
Hace 1 día · One politician who is very much an outsider to take part in this year's Soccer Aid is current PM and Southampton fan Rishi Sunak. After calling an election for July, he will no doubt be far too busy on the campaign trail, but he is 50/1 on new betting sites to stop off in West London on June 9, while his opposite number Sir Keir Starmer is 33/1.
Hace 3 días · The Lib Dem Leader used Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) himself to go on the offensive and defend Muslims with regard to the Islamophobic behaviour of Zac Goldsmith, which he believed was one of the reasons his party regained Richmond Park in last December’s by-election.
