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Rishi Sunak had pledged last year that the cost of the 4.5-mile tunnel would be covered by the private sector

One former Tory assembly member said the party could face “a nationwide extinction level event” if it does not learn lessons from the mayoral race

Shadow chancellor and London mayor admit party’s local election losses were linked to its response to Middle East conflict

Knife crime, manifesto pledges - and what next for Susan Hall?

Sadiq Khan was in fine form this morning, and who can blame him? Elected Mayor of London for a third time and on an increased share of the vote, the bloke had earned a curtain call.

Detectives are probing separate fatal stabbings in Palmers Green, Waltham Forest and Bethnal Green

I would like to congratulate Sadiq Khan for winning a momentous third term as London’s Mayor.

In the end, it was not all that close. Sadiq Khan secured a historic third term as London Mayor with 44 per cent of the vote over Conservative challenger Susan Hall’s 33 per cent. If anything, the uncertainty over the change to the voting system to first-past-the-post seemed to focus…

Sadiq Khan tells Standard the scale of his re-election as mayor means PM was deluded to believe the country was not set for a Labour victory

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham won elections in areas with large Muslim populations. Both engaged with us as citizens, says Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain

In today’s newsletter: Rishi Sunak’s party were expecting a difficult contest – but the results were even more dire than predicted, as political correspondent Kiran Stacey explains