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Sadiq Aman Khan (Urdu: ), (born 8 October 1970) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2005. Situated on the political left, he is a member of the Labour Party and is standing as the party's candidate to be Mayor of London in the 2016 mayoral election. Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan attained a degree in Law at the University of North London. He subsequently began work as a solicitor specialising in human rights. Khan represented Tooting as a Councillor for the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Communities by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, becoming the second British Pakistani to serve in Her Majesty's Government. Khan later served as Minister of State for Transport. He joined the Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in 2010. On 16 January 2013 he was also appointed Shadow Minister for London;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ed Miliband asks Sadiq Khan to lead London election campaign )〕 on 11 May 2015 he resigned from the Shadow Cabinet. On 11 September 2015, Khan was selected as the official Labour candidate to run for the London mayoralty having been endorsed by Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. ==Early life== Khan was born in 1970 in London to a family of Pakistani immigrants with eight children. His father worked as a bus driver and his mother as a seamstress. He grew up in a council flat on the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield, and attended Fircroft Primary School and Ernest Bevin College, before entering the University of North London to study law. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of North London, and a former Governor of South Thames FE College. Vice-Chairman of the Legal Action Group (LAG), Khan also served as Chairman of the civil liberties pressure group Liberty (NCCL) for three years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sadiq Khan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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