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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Sadiq Khan

Workers and trade unionists from Workers for a Free Palestine blockade the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) during an anti-Israel protest calling for the UK to cease the sale of arms to Israel, in central London, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
September 6, 2024, 12:55 pm
London announces new bus line so Jewish residents feel more safe
Jewish groups welcome direct route between Golders Green and Stamford Hill, hopefully enabling passengers to avoid antisemitism because they won’t have to change buses
By AFP
British MP Lee Anderson arrives to the annual Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, northern England, on October 2, 2023. (Oli Scarff/AFP)
February 25, 2024, 3:42 am
UK Conservatives suspend ties with MP who said London mayor controlled by Islamists
British ruling party announces step against Lee Anderson after he refused to apologize for saying Sadiq Khan has ‘actually given our capital city away to his mates’
By Agencies
Susan Hall, a lawmaker for the UK Conservative Party, in the town of Ruislip near London, July 21, 2023. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
October 5, 2023, 5:35 am
UK Conservative Party candidate says Jews are ‘frightened’ by London’s Muslim mayor
Susan Hall says Sadiq Khan is ‘divisive,’ vows to defeat him ‘for our Jewish community,’ drawing backlash from British Jews
By Gabe Friedman
Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Humza Yousaf, is sworn in as Scotland's first minister, the first Muslim in the role, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on March 29, 2023. (Jane Barlow/Pool/AFP)
March 30, 2023, 8:07 pm
Scotland’s new Muslim leader reflects UK’s booming political diversity
First Minister Humza Yousef joins country’s first Hindu prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and London’s Pakistani-descended Mayor Sadiq Khan as faces of multi-ethnic political scene
By Jill Lawless
Illustrative: A Metropolitan police officer on patrol, in London, October 1, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP)
February 2, 2022, 7:54 am
London police unit sent each other racist, sexist jokes, made light of Holocaust
One officer joked about Auschwitz death camp, watchdog finds; Metropolitan Police apologizes, home secretary calls behavior ‘sickening’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Metropolitan police officer on patrol, in London, October 1, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP)
November 1, 2021, 3:40 pm
Swastikas daubed near London synagogue, teen arrested
Suspect, 16, detained shortly after police receive reports of graffiti spray-painted in Belsize Park area in capital’s northwest; swift cleanup operation ensues
By Stuart Winer
A car and a bus drives through deep water on a flooded road in The Nine Elms district of London on July 25, 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
July 26, 2021, 11:50 am
London roads flood, stranding buses and cars as summer storms lash UK capital
Mayor Sadiq Khan says there has been ‘significant flooding’ impacting all public transportation; weather service predicts almost twice average monthly rainfall in some areas
By AFP
A convoy of cars filmed on London's Finchley Road, with passengers yelling antisemitic obscenities, on May 16, 2021. (Screenshot)
May 17, 2021, 2:03 pm
London to up police presence in Jewish areas after antisemitic convoy
Mayor touts move as one of several steps ‘to reassure Londoners, particularly those from Jewish communities’ amid anti-Israel protests over Gaza fighting
By AFP and ToI Staff
Shoppers pass under the Christmas lights on Regents Street in central London on December 14, 2020. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
December 14, 2020, 11:12 pm
London set for tighter virus curbs as new variant emerges in England
Experts say no evidence that fresh coronavirus strain is more dangerous, infectious or able to evade testing
By Anna MALPAS
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers an address on lifting the country's lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 10, 2020. (Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street via AP)
May 11, 2020, 4:49 pm
Boris Johnson’s ‘go to work’ advice sparks widespread confusion, mockery
Police say fuzzy rules make enforcement hard; Brits unclear on whether they can meet friends, relatives outside but 2 meters apart
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A video screen displays a message urging people to stay home in a nearly deserted Piccadilly Circus in London, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
April 8, 2020, 9:24 pm
UK’s Johnson remains in ICU with coronavirus, condition improving
Britain’s confirmed death toll reaches 7,097 on Wednesday, an increase of 938 from 24 hours earlier
By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA
Women wearing masks walk past a bus in London, March 22, 2020. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/ AP)
March 22, 2020, 9:16 pm
Virus ‘accelerating’ in UK as fears grow of Italy-like trajectory
Deaths reach 233 with 5,018 diagnosed; PM Johnson warns country is just ‘two or three weeks’ behind Italian situation
By David Harding
A police forensic officer works at the scene of Sunday's terror stabbing attack in the Streatham area of south London Monday Feb. 3, 2020 (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
February 4, 2020, 8:55 am
After stabbing attacks, UK to end automatic early release of terror convicts
Following 2 recent attacks in London, justice secretary says government will introduce emergency legislation to halt early freedom without review for terror offenders
By DANICA KIRKA
Police officers stand guard near the scene after a stabbing incident in Streatham, London, England, February 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
February 3, 2020, 12:18 pm
British police search homes in terror stabbing probe
PM Boris Johnson vows to change laws that let convicted terrorists, like Sunday’s stabber, obtain an early release from prison
By AFP
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, second left, and Commissioner of the City of London Police, Ian Dyson, right, arrive at the scene of a stabbing on London Bridge in the City of London, on November 30, 2019. (Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
December 1, 2019, 3:11 am
UK’s Johnson vows sentencing reforms after London stabber named
Prime minister says if re-elected he will introduce 14-year minimum sentences and scrap early release programs that allowed jihadi suspect to return to street for deadly attack
By AFP
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