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Jessica Elgot

Osborne says Goldsmith's mayoral campaign was political 'rough and tumble' - as it happened

George Osborne said Zac Goldsmith fought a positive campaign.
George Osborne said Zac Goldsmith fought a positive campaign. Photograph: ITV/Screengrab

Mid-afternoon summary

  • On Sunday morning, Khan appeared to directly criticise the party’s election slogan, which referred to ‘taking sides’, saying he did not want politics to be about ‘picking sides’, and in an interview this morning following his Observer piece, the mayor did not deny it was a critique of the Labour party’s wider strategy.
Newly elected Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (L) poses for a photograph with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
Newly elected Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (L) poses for a photograph with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Photograph: Hannah Mckay/EPA
George Osborne on Peston on Sunday
George Osborne on Peston on Sunday Photograph: ITV

That’s it from me today, thanks very much for reading.

Tory MP reported to police for 'explicit gestures'

Conservative MP Matthew Offord has been reported to police after he allegedly hurled abuse and made explicit gestures at passing Labour campaigners, and then hid in office, according to the Press Association.

Boris Johnson with Matthew Offord
Boris Johnson with Matthew Offord Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

This is their report into the incident

Matthew Offord has been accused of half clambering out of his constituency office window in Hendon, north London, to make hand gestures at a decommissioned fire engine carrying a Labour politician and a retired fire officer.

The Fire Brigades Union vehicle was being used by former MP Andrew Dismore on polling day last Thursday and was being driven by union member Steve James.

Upon going into Mr Offord’s office to complain about the “unpleasant” behaviour, Mr James and another campaigner were reportedly told he was not in and were asked to leave.

A police car was then flagged down by the pair who said officers quickly established the Hendon MP was inside.

James, who does not belong to any political party, told the Press Association: “When the police went upstairs, he said he was gesturing for us to go away, but I know the difference between profanity and telling someone to just go away.”

After being brought down to talk face-to-face, the 46-year-old MP allegedly refused to shake hands with the retired officer and he decided to lodge a formal complaint.

Offord, who has represented the area since 2010, is reportedly being investigated for breaching the Public Order Act 1986 and police confirmed inquiries were ongoing.

The vehicle had been adorned with campaign posters for London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan - who was later elected - and was playing Randy Newman’s You’ve Got A Friend In Me from its speakers when it passed the building.

James had not recognised the man at the window until he was identified as the area’s MP by his fellow passengers.

“I saw these blinds get whacked open and this gentleman has got his hand about chest-height giving us an explicit gesture,” he said.

“He then opens the window and literally clambers out and he is getting out of control with it. It just got more and more aggressive and more offensive and it was becoming quite unpleasant. It got worse and worse and I thought ‘this is wrong’.”

A number of eyewitnesses confirmed they had given statements to the police following the encounter.

The incident led James to question Offord’s suitability to hold office. “If a fire officer had behaved that way I would have dragged them over the coals for it.

“I’m not sure after what he did he should be allowed to continue in public office - I don’t want anyone to lose their job, but he is in the wrong.”

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: “Police attended Bunns Lane, NW7, at around 1530 on Thursday May 5 following an allegation that a public order offence had been committed. No arrests have been made. Inquiries are ongoing.” Offord could not be reached for comment.

In this video from the Holocaust memorial event, Sadiq Khan is asking the chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis if he managed to get his vote in Barnet, after the blunder with electoral lists saw many voters turned away. “No, I didn’t,” Mirvis replies.

While his tactics are dissected in the Sunday papers and programmes, Jeremy Corbyn is out enjoying the sunshine in north London, supporting runners at the Hackney half marathon.

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Sadiq Khan greeted by chief rabbi at Holocaust memorial event

Sadiq Khan was mobbed by members of the Jewish community when he arrived at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust memorial event in Barnet this afternoon.

In his first public engagement, he was greeted at the Bartnet Copthall stadium in north London by the chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Holocaust survivors and leading figures in the UK Jewish community.

London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan (R) speaks with Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan (R) speaks with Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

He is watching the two hour ceremony on the front row with Mirvis, the Israel ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, the former Labour fundraiser Lord Levy and Eric Pickles, the government’s ambassador on post-Holocaust issues.

Khan said he was “honoured that my first public engagement will be such a poignant one, where I will meet and hear from Jewish survivors and refugees who wen through unimaginable horrors in the Holocaust”.

The selection of the event signalled a clear attempt to distance himself from the Labour leadership’s handling of recent anti-semitism controversies.

Henry Grunwald QC, former chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, told Khan from the stage: “You have promised to be a mayor for all Londoners. By your attendance here today we hope that you are beginning to fulfil that pledge.”

London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan stands with holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott (2nd R), Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (R), and Israel’s ambassador to Britain Mark Regev (2nd L)
London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan stands with holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott (2nd R), Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (R), and Israel’s ambassador to Britain Mark Regev (2nd L) Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan meets holocaust survivor Harry Fleming at a holocaust commemoration ceremony held at a rugby stadium in north London
London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan meets holocaust survivor Harry Fleming at a holocaust commemoration ceremony held at a rugby stadium in north London Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

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My colleague Robert Booth is at the Yom Hashoah ceremony at the Barnet Copthall stadium in north London. The Holocaust memorial is the first public engagement for new London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Here’s Khan’s arrival, greeted by members of the Jewish community. We’ll have a report from the event shortly.

Sadiq Khan arrives at Yom Hashoah ceremony

The ceremony marks the official day in the Jewish calendar to remember victims of the Nazi genocide.

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The editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, thinks the Leave campaign have left themselves open to attack by saying the UK should leave the single market. Expect this to be a key line of fire from Remain campaigners in the coming days (even though Gove has actually mentioned this before).

Siemens boss criticises Gove over single market exit plan

Juergen Maier, the chief executive of Siemens UK, has chastised Michael Gove for his comments earlier, when he said the UK could leave the single market but still have access to its benefits.

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SNP set to relaunch independence campaign, says Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed she will ramp up efforts to pursue independence for Scotland over the summer “with the aim of persuading a clear majority of people in Scotland that independence is the best future for our country”.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Sturgeon said the unexpected success of the Conservatives in Scotland. who pledged to oppose a second referendum, did not mean she would scale back her efforts on that front, and said the Tories would set themselves “on a collision course with the Scottish population” if they stand in the way of a “clear demand” for another referendum.

Sturgeon told BBC One’s Sunday Politics Scotland she is “not going to be thwarted in my determination to govern in the interests of the country as a whole”.

The position I put forward in the SNP manifesto got the support of almost 50% of the population.

It’s a ridiculous notion to say that because the Conservatives managed to get scarcely over 20% of the vote that somehow the case for independence has taken a step back - the contrary is the case.

There is an independence-supporting majority in the Scottish Parliament if you take the SNPs and the Greens. My manifesto said in certain circumstances the Scottish Parliament should have the right to propose another referendum.

I have got to persuade other people of the strength of my case, and in saying that, I am prepared to do that patiently, with a lot of humility and listening to people.

Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw hinted that the UK government should block a second referendum. “I wouldn’t be unhappy if they did, but I actually don’t believe it is going to get to that point,” he said.

It wasn’t in their manifesto, I don’t think they have the mandate, and I think Scotland has now made it very clear that it wants to see the government get on with governing the country, and to put the independence issue aside for this parliament.

I think if the SNP has got any sense it will recognise that if it pushes on now and persists with trying to put Scotland through another referendum, it is actually going to come to grief.

Lunchtime summary

  • Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London, has sent a strong message to his party leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying the party must seek to win elections with a broader base.
  • Khan appeared to directly criticise the party’s election slogan, which referred to ‘taking sides’, saying he did not want politics to be about ‘picking sides’, and in an interview this morning following his Observer piece, the mayor did not deny it was a critique of the Labour party’s wider strategy.
  • MPs including Wes Streeting, Chuka Ummuna and Caroline Flint praised Khan’s piece, as well as key Corbyn ally Clive Lewis.
  • Jeremy Corbyn has not yet met formally with Khan since his victory party on Friday night, after missing his signing-in ceremony yesterday, and the new mayor said he would be spending the day at the Holocaust memorial day ceremony.
  • Emily Thornberry, the shadow defence secretary, denied there was a rift with Khan, and said Corbyn had chosen to go to Bristol instead.
  • Chancellor George Osborne called the campaign by Zac Goldsmith against Khan, criticised by many as ‘dog-whistle’ and racially-charged tactics, part of the “rough and tumble” of democracy and said Goldsmith should not take the criticism to heart. He has a good future in the party, Osborne said.
  • Michael Gove, the justice secretary, told the BBC’s Marr show that he favoured the UK leaving the single market and negotiating new trade deals post-Brexit.
  • The remarks were leapt upon by Osborne in his interview on ITV’s Peston on Sunday, warning it would be catastrophic to leave the biggest free trade area in the world.
  • Leaving the European Union would hit house prices significantly and make mortgages more expensive, the Chancellor claimed, announcing he would publish Treasury research about the short-term costs of Brexit in the coming days
  • The Tory leadership election will not be until 2019, Osborne has suggested, saying he expect Cameron to stay on until the end of the decade.
  • The Chancellor gave strong hints about his own ambitions for the job. He said the party needed to decided whether it wanted continuity. “Do we abandon that formula that has brought us electoral success and improved our country?” he asked, implying he was the safe choice.

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Here’s Conservative MP Nus Ghani using that favoured phrase to describe the divisive campaign led by Zac Goldsmith. “It was always going to be a rough and tumble campaign,” she says. It’s the same phrasing used by both Michael Fallon and George Osborne over the past 48 hours.

She does say the campaign was too narrow. “Because it was a narrow campaign that’s all people think of now,” she says. “London fundamentally has changed.”

It’s not convincing Harriet Harman.

Another of Corbyn’s shadow ministers has said he should heed the advice from Sadiq Khan’s victory, and prove that winning elections matters. Shadow housing minister John Healey spoke to Sky’s Murnaghan programme, saying Labour needed to show it had a “mission to win” elections.

Every new party leader has to prove himself. It’s only eight months since he was elected.

But for my money, that mandate to lead must also be a mission to win and it’s that single-minded job now, our sole purpose, must be to win back a hearing and then the support of the millions of people in Scotland and across swathes of middle and southern England and Wales that deserted us and weren’t convinced by us in 2015.

In the Scottish papers today, it’s perhaps inevitable that the focus falls on the two biggest winners of the campaign - Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson - and how these two formidable women will manage their political realignment over the coming five years.

Though some of this weekend’s headlines - “Bring it on, Ruth”, “Ready to Rumble”, “Totty Rocked” - suggest that editors are anticipating a Sturgeon-Davidson girl-fight to an unseemly degree.

The ever interesting Gerry Hassan has just been on BBC Radio Scotland suggesting that this election marks the “end of SNP imperialism” - both in terms of its return to minority government, and the unlikelyhood of another independence referendum this term. And in fairness to Hassan, he called the 2015 general election the end of ‘peak SNP’ as year ago.

In his column in the Sunday Times, former SNP director of communications Kevin Pringle recalls the “more consultative, consensual approach” required during the last SNP minority administration of 2007 to 2011, and also notes that Thursday night produced “a peculiarly Scottish political equilibrium”.

“No party has the strength, at present, to supplant the SNP as the government of Scotland. But the SNP lacks the support, at present, to achieve its objective of an independent Scotland.”

It is notable that, despite some individual sniping about the failing of the Scottish Labour campaign, the Sundays are free of any calls for leader Kezia Dugdale to stand down. A more thoughtful treatment of Labour woes by Euan McColm in Scotland on Sunday has a dismal conclusion.

And Nicola Sturgeon, once described by the Mail as “the most dangerous woman in Britain”, must be relieved this weekend that the paper has found a new enemy - the Scottish Greens leader Patrick Harvie, whose party now holds a powerful position in Holyrood, forming a pro-independence majority with the SNP. Or “power-made green zealot” as he shall henceforth be known.

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Khan makes Holocaust memorial first public engagement

Sadiq Khan is at a Holocaust memorial event, Yom Hashoah, in Barnet, north London today for his first public engagement as mayor, a move which has been greeted with praise by Jewish leaders and commentators.

The Jewish Chronicle’s Marcus Dysch said it sent the right signal after rows about anti-semitism in the party.

This from Sarah Sackman, the former Labour candidate for Finchley and Golders Green.

Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, also released a statement praising the decision.

We very much welcome the fact that his first public engagement will be the Yom HaShoah commemoration and hope that this will set the tone for his mayoralty’s engagement with our community. We look forward to working with him in his new role.

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The Times has a story this morning that Jeremy Corbyn will take a holiday in the final few weeks before the EU referendum. The paper says the trip will follow an official visit abroad, keeping Corbyn away from the campaign trail for over a week.

Thornberry defended Corbyn, saying he had earned a holiday. “Well I think it’s been pretty full on for Jeremy, hasn’t it, since he was elected as leader,” she said.

I do think that when Parliament is not sitting he should be allowed to have a few days off. It is a team effort and for Jeremy to have a few days off I don’t think is anything that anyone should begrudge him.

Corbyn’s spokesman told Press Association it would not confirm the holiday. “We don’t discuss Jeremy’s movements but he will undertake a significant number of public engagements with the Labour In campaign in the next few weeks.”

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Emily Thornberry, the shadow defence secretary, has defended Corbyn’s decision to go to Bristol to meet Marvin Rees, rather than attend Khan’s signing-in ceremony. She was on Sky News’ Murnaghan programme earlier.

“You can’t be in two places at once,” she said. In a rebuke to Khan’s call for the party to focus on issues rather than in-fighting, she said: “Sadiq was absolutely right to talk about housing, guess what? Jeremy Corbyn’s last question at Prime Minister’s Questions was about housing.

“Did David Cameron answer it? No, David Cameron wanted to talk about Islamophobia.”

Caroline Flint, the former shadow minister, has been on the Sunday Politics praising Sadiq Khan’s Observer piece. She said Labour’s results on Thursday were not as good as they should be. “I think the Tories were probably relatively relieved,” she said.

Clive Lewis, shadow energy minister, is on straight afterwards. He’s a key ally of Corbyn, and says he does not believe Flint is correct. He says the Labour party’s split which has been the core focus for the media, not Tory failures.

But he denies there is a split between Khan and Corbyn.

We have a massive task ahead of us, constant infighting is not going to help us. We all know it’s a struggle. I agree with so much of what Sadiq Khan says.

It’s a fantastic victory. Sadiq nominated Corbyn, they are comrades, they are good friends and they have a lot to learn from each other.

I don’t think it’s a big issue, I don’t think there’s a big split.

He says the results were not the disaster that was predicted, and that Corbyn has constantly proved his critics run.

I think things are changing, people are angry. I think the punditry has to change to reflect that.

I think Scotland was a very difficult night for us. What we have done in this week’s election, we have consolidated our vote, we have improved by 2%. We have no chance of winning in 2020 if we remain a divided party.

But Lewis also praises Khan’s message that Labour must start listening to people beyond core supporters.

We have to start reaching out to people who voted Conservative in 2015 and I think that’s a message Jeremy needs to listen to and will listen to.

The Leave campaign says Osborne’s government would not have promised the referendum if leaving would be so catastrophic.

Osborne says Tory party needs continuity after Cameron

  • Osborne says he “fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party and then as leader of the country” and insists he is not restless. He floats 2019 as the date for the new leadership election.

There will be a leadership election at the end of the decade. It’ll be at the end of this decade in my view, when David Cameron says he wants to go. And of course the party will choose.

  • And there’s a warning here, he says the party should not be looking for a leader outside the mainstream, and emphasises the benefit of continuity. Who could he be talking about?

What matters to me is do we have a moderate, compassionate party that appeals to the moderate mainstream of this country, that offers sober, serious principled answers to the problems?

Or do we abandon that formula that has brought us electoral success and improved our country?

That for me will be the issue in the leadership election.

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Osborne: 'Leaving single market would be catastrophic'

There is a lot to process from that George Osborne interview, with the Chancellor discussing the risk of leaving the single market, which Justice Secretary Michael Gove made clear the Leave campaign wanted in an earlier interview on Marr, as well as his own desire for the Tory leadership, the timetable for David Cameron’s resignation and his views on Donald Trump.

Here are some of the key points:

  • On the Andrew Marr show earlier, Gove said he preferred the UK to be “outside the Single Market but have access to it”. It’s a position the justice secretary has mooted before, because it would mean the UK would be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. This is Osborne’s response:

We’ve just had the Leave campaign admit this morning that Britain would leave the single market, that’s the biggest free trade area in the world. That would be catastrophic for people’s incomes, jobs and livelihoods.

Now some people think wrecking the economy is a price worth paying, I absolutely reject that.

If you’re working in a car plant in the north east of England, or working in a call centre in Bournemouth... you will be affected by that in a very bad way.

  • He warns that leaving the EU would have an effect on house prices and mortgage lending, promising new research on the short-term effects of Brexit within the next week or so.

It’s already clear from the Treasury analysis that for example, there would a significant shock to the housing market, that would hit the value of people’s homes, that would hit the cost of mortgages.

  • Osborne did not deny he was after the job in Number 10, but said he believed the leadership race would not be for several years. He may prefer a delay, a recent poll for Conservative Home found him to be the first choice of only 8% of Tory voters, with Gove now the favourite. That poll led to this rather awkward question by Peston:
  • Osborne admitted he had made some mistakes and some unpopular decisions, but he says he does not want to sit in the corner.

I don’t want to do this job just to coast along and try and avoid making any errors and play it completely safe in the hope I might move next door at some point.

I’m in this job to make changes, I am not going to pull my punches to make those changes.

When you have small majority you don’t win every fight you have, but I would rather be in the fight than sitting back trying to avoid any controversy. That’s not who I am.

  • He admits the government “can’t get through” the plan to turn all schools into academies but says it is not abandoned.

Do I win every battle? No. But is the country in better shape than when David Cameron and I walked into Downing Street six years ago. Yes it is.

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A little gag at the end of Osborne’s interview.

We look forward to working with the next president of the United States, whoever she may be.

As the Sun’s Tom Newton Dunn points out, that’s a stolen joke from Obama.

Here’s the full Osborne quote about Goldsmith’s campaign.

That is the process we go through to make sure people are up to the job they do when they get elected.

I’ve been on winning general election teams and losing general election teams and when you lose a campaign, in the days afterwards, every single thing you did was wrong.

When you win, you’re regarded as complete political geniuses and everything you did was right. The truth is somewhere in between.

I went campaigning with Zac, when I was with him he was arguing for more infrastructure in London, we were talking to young tech entrepreneurs in London, there was a positive campaign there but obviously it didn’t work in the end.

Of course Zac has a future. He’s a brilliant member of parliament for Richmond, he’s got incredibly important ideas about the environment, he’s independent minded, he will be on the Tory benches making his views pretty clear.

My advice for him is don’t read any of these articles, dare I say it, switch off the television programmes, and you know, it just happens, everyone will take a chunk out of you, and if I was him I would relax about that, because that’s part of the democratic process.

Tory leadership election 'at the end of the decade' - Osborne

Osborne is back on Peston, talking about whether he fancies the job as Tory leader. He does not deny it, but says he “worked very hard to get my friend [Cameron] elected as prime minister.”

He says he believes the Tory leadership election will be “the end of this decade” not after the EU referendum.

This from Sky News’ Kay Burley:

Allegra Stratton offers her analysis on the new Peston on Sunday set.
Allegra Stratton offers her analysis on the new Peston on Sunday set. Photograph: ITV

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Sadiq Khan’s refusal to deny his comment piece in the Observer was a critique of Corbyn has been much discussed on social media.

From the Huffington Post’s Paul Waugh

From the Telegraph’s Asa Bennett

And the New Statesman’s George Eaton on Khan’s claim he has slept six hours since Wednesday...

Osborne is now talking about the Remain campaign. He says it is a positive campaign too, not Project Fear and that the government is making the patriotic case for the EU.

He says there are politicians out there, (Donald Trump?) that say you can cut yourself off from the modern economy and build a wall around you but he thinks that is the wrong approach.

Asked about why Cameron will not do a head-to-head debate, with a leading Tory Leave advocate, Osborne says “everyone wants to turn this into a Tory soap opera but it is more important than that”.

Osborne on the set of Robert Peston’s new ITV talk show.
Osborne on the set of Robert Peston’s new ITV talk show. Photograph: ITV

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Goldsmith campaign was part of 'robust democracy' - Osborne

George Osborne is on Peston’s show this morning. He uses Michael Fallon’s phrasing, that Zac Goldsmith’s campaign was “rough and tumble” of politics.

He says that Goldsmith did fight a positive campaign, but the losing side always has their campaign picked over.

He says Goldsmith has a good political future ahead of him as a Conservative MP. He says he has some advice for him, as someone who has been a member of a losing election team.

Don’t read these articles, switch off the TV. This happens, everyone will take a chunk out of you, it’s part of the process.

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Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell is on the new ITV show, Peston on Sunday.

The results are not good. I agree with basically every word of Sadiq Khan’s article in the Observer.

Campbell says he worries that the leadership of Labour want people to unite, but Labour needs something to unite around. He says the people who elected him as Labour leader are not the people who will make Labour win in 2020.

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Khan: We only change people's lives by winning elections

Sadiq Khan has said Labour must be a big tent in an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, where he refused to deny his article for the Observer this morning was an attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the current direction of the party.

On Labour’s electoral challenge

We in Labour, our mission is to improve people’s lives, change people’s lives for the better, we only do that by winning elections, by having a mandate.

The challenges facing Londoners, are how do you tackle the housing crisis? A modern and affordable transport system? How do we keep our city safe? Tackle air pollution? My point is that we only do that by speaking to people who previously haven’t voted Labour, people outside our tent. We have to stop talking about ourselves, and the processes, and start talking about issues that matter to citizens.

On whether Corbyn is part of his success

Success has many parents. The victory on Thursday was victory for London, London chose hope over fear, unity over division.

On whether saying ‘it should never be about “picking sides”’ was a direct attack on Labour’s election slogan

My point was I want Labour to be a big tent, and if we want to form the next government we need to speak to everyone, not just Labour voters, not just our core vote. I have to speak to chief executives, people who voted Conservative last time, Ukip or stayed at home, speaking and listening to everyone.

On when he’s meeting Corbyn

I think we’re seeing each other tomorrow but look, I’ve been really busy, I got into City Hall at 8am, I’ve had six hours sleep since Wednesday, I’ve got a full day today, I’m going to the national Holocaust commemoration. I’m going to be a full-time mayor with the political will to fix the problems Londoners face.

On whether he will be a leader for parts of the Labour party

If others want to learn from that [my campaign] I’m happy to talk to them

On anti-semitism in the Labour party and London’s multiculturalism

I have been a victim of hate crime, and as a Londoner, as a human being I don’t feel right that people are victims of hate crimes because of their religion or ethnicity. That’s why as soon as I heard Ken Livingstone’s comments, I spoke up about them. There should be no place in our party for people with those disgusting views.

The great things about London is this, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and people who aren’t a member of organised faiths, we not only tolerate each other, we respect each other and celebrate each other, and that’s why we’re a beacon for the world.

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Labour must stop talking about ourselves, Khan says

Marr now turns to the Observer article. Khan says he wants to talk to people who previously haven’t voted Labour. He says success has “many parents” and his victory was a victory for London, for hope over fear. Labour has to stop talking just about ourselves, he says.

Marr directly confronts him with Labour’s election poster (see below), showing him the picture, and asks if he was taking a swipe at that slogan. Khan does not deny that, and says he wants a big tent, and wants to listen to all sides.

He says he is not meeting Corbyn today, he will shortly attend Holocaust memorial commemorations and says he hopes to meet the Labour leader tomorrow. But he says he has already started in City Hall, and his focus is on being a full-time mayor.

I’ll post a summary of the main points from that interview shortly.

Jeremy Corbyn poses with activists in front of Labour’s local election poster.
Jeremy Corbyn poses with activists in front of Labour’s local election poster. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

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Khan says he has suffered hate crime, and he knows what it feels like. That is why he spoke up against anti-semitism, he says. We are the beacon to the rest of the world, he says of London’s multiculturalism and tolerance.

Sadiq Khan on Marr

Sadiq Khan is on now, and Marr’s first question is whether the campaign against him was racist.

Khan says that is not for him to say, but said it was disappointing that it was a divisive campaign.

He says he has spent his whole life trying to get ethnic minority communities to get involved in politics and is disappointed some have said to him that they will no longer get involved after seeing how he was treated.

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Sir John Sawers, the former head of MI6 is on the Marr show. Sawers is a key supporter for the Remain campaign for the EU rederendum.

He agrees that the intelligence services work bilaterally with other states, rather than directly with the EU, but he says it is the EU which provides the framework for data sharing.

Sawers said it is wrong to say there is no value added to intelligence sharing from being in the EU, he says requests that once took four months now take 15 minutes.

He also praises the EU arrest warrant, saying extradition of suspects had previously taken up to a decade, when now it could be handled in a matter of weeks.

If we walk away, we will lose a lot of their gains. We will not be able to take part in the decisions in how to frame intelligence sharing. It’s not just about day to day co-operation, it’s about the safety of our continent. We need to make sure the centre is solid and the European Union plays its role underpinning human rights and democracy here in Europe.

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MPs on the Labour right are hailing Sadiq Khan’s piece as a blueprint for how the party can win back voters.

Here’s what’s coming up today:

9am: Andrew Marr is interviewing Sadiq Khan and justice secretary Michael Gove (as well as Prince Harry) on the BBC’s Marr show.

10am: The launch of ITV’s new politics programme with Robert Peston, with the chancellor George Osborne, former Tory MP Esther McVey and former Labour spin doctor Alistair Campbell.

11am: Andrew Neil’s Sunday Politics will have Labour’s Caroline Flint and shadow energy minister Clive Lewis, a key Corbyn ally. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson will also be on the programme.

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Corbyn was in Bristol yesterday to congratulate the new mayor, Marvin Rees, who clinched the highly symbolic Labour gain in the south.

Jeremy Corbyn (left) with Labour’s Marvin Rees who has been elected as the mayor of Bristol,
Jeremy Corbyn (left) with Labour’s Marvin Rees who has been elected as the mayor of Bristol, Photograph: Claire Hayhurst/PA

Asked why he had not attended Khan’s signing-in that morning:

I am meeting Sadiq over the weekend; I have been in touch with him. We are getting on fine. I have sent him a message of congratulations. I’m here supporting Marvin.

Sadiq and I are getting on just fine and I am looking forward to working with both Sadiq and Marvin.

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Labour can't win by 'picking sides' says Khan

Good morning, we’re following the reaction to the London mayoral election and the fallout from election results across the country, as well as all the political news on Sunday.

This morning’s top story is London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan, and his bold article for the Observer taking a swipe at Labour’s election strategy and the philosophy of its leader.

Khan says he has learnt lessons about winning during his campaign for mayor which Labour should take to a national level.

Labour only wins when we face outwards and focus on the issues that people care about; second, we will never be trusted to govern unless we reach out and engage with all voters – regardless of their background, where they live or where they work.

As tempting as it might be, we must always resist focusing in on ourselves and ignoring what people really want.

Throughout the piece, Khan emphasises the need for catch-all ideas, rather than appealing only to a core base.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone – not just its activists. Campaigns that deliberately turn their back on particular groups are doomed to fail. Just like in London, so-called natural Labour voters alone will never be enough to win a general election.

We must be able to persuade people who previously voted Conservative that Labour can be trusted with the economy and security, as well as improving public services and creating a fairer society.

One line in the piece seems particularly pointed at Labour’s slogan for Thursday’s election “Elections are about taking sides. Labour is on yours.”

My slogan was “A Mayor for all Londoners”. It should never be about “picking sides”, a “them or us” attitude, or a having a political strategy to target just enough of the population to get over the line. Our aim should be to unite people from all backgrounds as a broad and welcoming tent – not to divide and rule.

There is criticism too about the party’s reaction to the row over anti-semitism in the Labour party.

By not acting quickly enough, the party gave the impression that we didn’t care about the concerns of the Jewish community and that we were not taking accusations of racism seriously.

Khan also takes aim at his opponent Zac Goldsmith’s campaign, widely criticised by Conservatives yesterday. Khan says it was “something straight out of the Donald Trump playbook.”

David Cameron and Zac Goldsmith chose to set out to divide London’s communities in an attempt to win votes in some areas and suppress voters in other parts of the city.

Khan will be on the BBC’s Marr show from 9am, a day after officially signing-in to be Mayor of London at Southwark cathedral.

Corbyn was not present at the ceremony, and instead chose to visit Bristol, where Labour secured a comfortable victory in the city’s own mayoral race.

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