Top lawyer vows to litigate Khan and oust him as Mayor after seven-year screw up

Jun 26, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Top lawyer vows to litigate Khan and oust him as Mayor after seven-year screw up

Top KC Mozammel Hossain has vowed to make use of his skills as a number one legal barrister to tear into Sadiq Khan’s file as Mayor of London.

Mr Hossain is one in all three hopefuls shortlisted to be the Conservative candidate subsequent 12 months to run for London Mayor in May together with Assembly member Susan Hall and former particular adviser Daniel Korski.

He is the primary Bangladeshi to have been made a Queen’s Council (now King’s Council) after arriving within the UK aged 21 having grown up the eighth youngster of a poor household in a mud hut.

Mr Hossain vowed to lean on his “professional experience” to tackle Khan “or whoever Labour puts up”.

He stated: “I will litigate Sadiq Khan. I will expose his failures. If it’s me against him that’s not a single attack line he can use against me.”

He mocked Mr Khan for speaking about his humble origins because the “son of a bus driver” in comparison with his even humbler origins rising up in a mud hut.

He stated: “Even the Martians know his father was a bus driver. My darling father possibly never saw a bus in the village. It won’t be about backstory anymore. It will be about his record.

“This is a whole tone-deaf strategy Sadiq Khan is taking.

“He keeps saying he cares about people. He keeps talking about his background, his roots, he has forgotten them. I have it. It shapes me every day.”

Mr Hossain believes his background will allow him greater than every other potential Tory candidate to achieve out to London’s completely different communities.

He stated: “They’ll be willing to listen to me because of my back story, because of my because of the life I have lived.

“I’ve labored and lived throughout London. I’ve deep connections with each neighborhood in London.

“I am able to litigate Sadiq Khan a case against him because they’ll be willing to listen to me because of who I am and I can expose him.”

Mr Hossain believes that Mr Khan’s high three failures are a failure to supply housing for individuals in London; his plans to develop ULEZ to fund his mismanagement of Transport for London (TfL), which is near chapter; and the truth that crime is so unhealthy in London individuals now not really feel protected.

Mr Hossain, a legal barrister, stated: “Crime is the number one failure.

It ought to actually, actually offend everyone that he is the Policing and Crime Commissioner in London and the Met on this particular measures. He by no means led correctly.”

Mr Hossain spoke of meeting a couple whose son works in a pub 15 minutes walk away but they insist on him getting an Uber home because they are afraid of him being attacked on the streets.

He said: “I spoke to a tech billionaire who’s sending his youngster to America to University as a result of he doesn’t really feel they’re protected in London.”

He also pointed out that Mr Khan is in charge of the fire service “and it’s in particular measures too.”

Mr Hossain vowed that he will switch off the ULEZ expansion on day one of being mayor pointing out that in outer London public transport connections are abysmal.

He said: “Imagine if you happen to’re a nurse, completed your shift in Orpington Hospital at 3 within the morning, however you reside in Kent. How are you going to go dwelling? Tell me? Three within the morning. After a protracted shift, it’s important to pay £12.50 (for Khan’s ULEZ cost) a day to get dwelling as a result of there isn’t any practice.

How is the nurse going to afford it? Why is Khan doing it? If he really cares about poor or hard-working people, why is he doing it?”

On housing, Mr Khan set a goal of 116,000 reasonably priced new properties in 2016 however has solely achieved 63,817.

Mr Hossain would use TfL land and different land owned by the Mayor to construct new properties for individuals in London.

He stated: “The London I came to look their university brimming with opportunities. Look at it now. Sadly, Khan’s failures are denying people those opportunities.”