Khan Marks 10 Years With Green Record, Labour Warning
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- Sadiq Khan marks 10 years as London mayor — now the longest-serving post-2000 mayor — having won three elections with a coalition of "Tory remainers, Greens, Lib Dems, Labour supporters."
- Khan's environmental scorecard includes Ulez extended across all Greater London, 640,000 new trees planted, a quadrupled cycle network, the pension fund largely divested from fossil fuels, and Oxford Street set for full pedestrianisation by end of summer.
- London's NO2 pollution fell within legal limits for the first time since 2010 regulations, reversing King's College London's 2019 estimate that compliance would take 193 years without further action.
- Keir Starmer and the national Labour party opposed Khan's 2023 Ulez expansion to outer London, with Khan saying he had "no support" from Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, or Reform.
- Khan warns Labour that denigrating the Greens is "utterly counterproductive" after losing the Gorton and Denton byelection in February and suffering losses in last week's local elections.
- Donald Trump called Khan "a terrible, terrible mayor" at the 2025 UN general assembly and claimed London was being steered towards sharia law — attacks Khan describes as having a "personal cost" to him and his family.
Why it matters: Khan's warning lands at a vulnerable moment for Labour: the party won a July 2024 landslide on a progressive coalition that included Greens and Lib Dems, and now risks losing that base to Reform. His decade of green results — citywide Ulez, 640,000 trees, NO2 within legal limits — gives him standing to argue that coalition-building with the Greens is electorally essential, not optional.
