The Liberal Democrats’ mayoral candidate Rob Blackie says he’s “not surprised” that his party’s former candidate is backing Sadiq Khan.
Siobhan Benita, who was the Lib Dem candidate in the London mayoral election originally planned for 2020, is urging party voters to back the Labour party.
Siobhan Benita, who was the Lib Dem candidate in the London mayoral election originally planned for 2020, is urging party voters to back the Labour party.
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00:00 Siobhan Benita has just launched her support for, she was the previous
00:03 Mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats, and she's launched her support for Sadiq Khan.
00:07 What are your thoughts on that?
00:09 She didn't vote for us at the last election, so it's not really a surprise she's not voting for
00:12 us at this election. I would obviously like everybody to vote for me. Got to be realistic,
00:17 not everyone will. But what we do know is the Conservatives are in free fall in London.
00:23 Nationally they're doing terribly and they're doing even worse in London,
00:26 so there's no chance they're going to win. But Sadiq Khan doesn't deserve to win,
00:30 based on his record as Mayor, on things like crime and housing. And that's why we're seeing
00:36 our support go up. We see this on the doorsteps every day, but we also see it in the independent
00:40 opinion polls. We are up in every poll on where we were last time, and we're continuing to go up.