Now that the results are in, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on this election.

While we didn’t quite get over the line, I’m incredibly proud of my team. Despite a global pandemic, they ran an amazing campaign and together we shattered expectations. But although the pandemic brought new challenges, there was another challenge that felt familiar.

I’ve been written off a lot in my life. So it was no surprise when the pundits said I come never even come close to winning.

London faces record levels of knife crime, unaffordable homes, a bankrupt transport network & a rising cost of living.

So we need a fresh start.

And I have a plan to deliver it. I’ll make our streets safe by hiring 8,000 extra police officers and reopening 38 police stations to the public.

Londoners have been asking about my policy of 100,000 homes for £100,000 each.
 
They like the policy — but they want to know how it will work. Read on to find out!

THREAD

1/6 It’s every Londoner’s dream to buy a home. And it’s the Mayor’s responsibility to make that dream a reality.
 
But homeownership has been out of reach for too many Londoners. So in my first term, I’ll fund the construction of 100,000 homes to be sold for £100,000 each.
 
2/6

On a cold and wet weekend, I want to thank all the activists who were out campaigning for a safer, fairer and more affordable London.

This weekend, @SadiqKhan was bailed out. He has wasted £9.56bn at TfL. Now he’s going to make Londoners pay. This city deserves better. @ToryBc

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TFL’S SECOND BAILOUT

For the second time this year, TfL has run out of money.

So once again, the government are bailing @SadiqKhan out.

This £1.7 billion bailout covers the cost of Covid — but not the cost of @SadiqKhan’s mismanagement.

1/6 .@SadiqKhan racked up £9.56bn in waste over 4 years.

That’s SIX TIMES the cost of Covid, which cost £1.6bn in lost fares.

The bailout does NOT force Khan to extend the congestion charge, despite what he claimed. But if he wants to bring back services, he needs to cut waste

2/6

After receiving a £1.6bn bailout from Gov in May, @SadiqKhan is now demanding another one.

It's easy for the Mayor to blame the virus.

But if he had managed TfL's finances properly, he wouldn't have needed one bailout, let alone two.

THREAD 1/15

standard.co.uk/news/transport… It's easy for @SadiqKhan to blame TfL's current financial crisis on Covid.

After all, TfL revenue took a hit during lockdown.

But if the Mayor had built up reserves, grown the network and paid off debt during the last four years, these bailouts would not be necessary.

2/15

In 2016, Sadiq Khan became Mayor and Chairman of TfL.

Four years and £13bn of debt later, TfL is bankrupt. Londoners are stuck with a higher congestion charge. And fares are set to rise.

Khan defended his record in Parliament today. But he left a few things out.

Read on 👇🏿
1/8 Sadiq Khan has mismanaged TfL for 4 years.

He froze single fares, mostly benefitting tourists. Cost = £640m

He delayed Crossrail again and again. Cost = £5bn

He paid out massive bonuses to TfL staff. Cost = £1.7m (in 2019 alone)

And he refused to find savings.

2/8

At 8pm, I’m debating race on @ITV. Here’s what I’ll say.

I believe in equality of opportunity. It’s the reason behind London’s success.

Equality isn’t about defunding police or ending capitalism. It’s about unlocking the potential of every Londoner, black and white. The more chances we all have, the better our city becomes.

Opportunity is the route out of poverty, the route out of crime.

I know this. I was a youth worker for 20 years. When you give people opportunity, they thrive. Because at the end of the day, we all want the same things.

The Mayor is threatening to cut the police budget by £110m - that's 1,692 officers.

Despite hiking his office costs by £527m (320%).

A summer of crime is coming.

@SadiqKhan needs to retake control of the streets.

👇🏿 THREAD 1/14

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Crime is rising in London.

Knife crime is up. Burglaries are up. Illegal raves have turned violent from Brixton to Maida Vale.

And with pubs set to reopen on this weekend, police are expecting more chaos.

So we need to support our police — not cut their budgets.

2/14

I have some thoughts about tearing down statues.

👉🏾Communities should make decisions, not mobs
👉🏾 Statues should end up in museums, not seabeds
👉🏾 We need to be building more monuments to showcase our present day role models, not cutting ourselves off from our past

THREAD 1/17 This is a thread about history, what it means to live in a civilised society and why @SadiqKhan 's hastily announced commission to tear down statues and rename roads across London is both a dangerous and divisive idea.

2/17

The Mayor has been caught lying (again) about the terms of his TfL bailout.

He claimed that the Gov forced him to suspend free travel for under-18s.

But the Dept for Transport today released a letter confirming that @SadiqKhan 's Deputy AGREED to this suspension.

THREAD 1/5 The Secretary of State for Transport's letter to Sadiq Khan was made public today.

In it, he slaps down the Mayor for misleading the public about his bailout and the conditions attached to it.

2/5

The details of Sadiq Khan's TfL bailout have now been published.

And it's not great for the Mayor.

- No Gov instruction to increase the congestion charge.

- Khan was already planning to hike fares last year.

- Appalling state of TfL's finances prior to lockdown.

THREAD 1/12 The Gov, DfT as well as the Mayor's own spokesman have now all confirmed that it was the Mayor's decision to increase and expand the congestion charge.

Nobody else's

On GMB last week, the Mayor himself admitted it had been his decision last week.

"It was us."

2/12

This is a lie @SadiqKhan.

As you well know (and as Gov have confirmed), you were not forced to increase the C-charge. You were only asked to make proposals to review.

If the Gov wanted to force you to increase the c-charge, they would have done so. But they didn't.

1/4

https://twitter.com/sadiqkhan/status/1263103644821450754

Anybody who has spent any time in Government knows what "proposals" mean.

It means consultation. Cost-analysis.

It doesn't mean you were "forced" to do it during lockdown, when people should be avoiding public transport.

So where are your proposals?

2/4

Sorry @SadiqKhan, but this is rubbish.

The bailout you first asked for was 2x the amount accounted for by lost revenue due to covid. You knew you had a blackhole to fill.

No wonder the Gov insisted on a review of your finances.

1/4

https://twitter.com/sadiqkhan/status/1262440456442580992

The Transport Secretary confirmed today in the HoC that the Gov did not ask you to increase the Congestion Charge.

Even your own spokesman confirmed it was your decision to increase it on Friday, presumably before your spin operation kicked into action.

2/4

To be clear, it was @SadiqKhan's decision, and his alone, to increase the Congestion Charge from £11.50 to £15, and expand it to 7 days a week.

THREAD 1/5

theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m… The Department for Transport have confirmed that the government did not force @SadiqKhan or TfL to raise the congestion charge as a condition of approving the bailout.

To suggest they did, is a lie.

2/5

As expected, @SadiqKhan is now running to the Government for a bailout of TfL, where Khan serves as Chairman.

On one level it makes sense - the coronavirus is hammering fare revenues.

But that’s not all of the story. Far from it. #thread 1/12 When Sadiq Khan became Mayor, TfL had healthy finances. That he is now asking the Government for a bailout of £3.2 bn - i.e. far in excess of the impact of COVID - is evidence of four years of bad management, not simply the impacts of this horrible disease.

What do I mean? 2/12

@CityAM this morning:

Imagine being a key worker tomorrow morning.

A twenty-minute wait for the next tube — if you manage to get on. A carriage so overcrowded that you’ve got no hope of social distancing. And then a rush to your hospital, your police station, your school. We’re asking key staff to put their health on the line at work. Why are we forcing them to put their health on the line during the commute?

.@SadiqKhan never takes responsibility for issues he has control over. But he loves to take credit for things he has no right taking credit for.

Just like today’s win on Heathrow expansion - THREAD

1/10 Let’s look at the facts.

In 2009 Sadiq Khan was a transport minister in Gordon Brown’s government.

2/10

With Corbynism now a smoking ruin, Sadiq Khan is frantically trying to distance himself from the Corbyn project. I say not so fast. Let’s take a look at Khan’s record on this: (THREAD) Sadiq Khan was one of the 35 MPs who nominated Jeremy Corbyn to be leader of the Labour Party. He even tweeted “Good to see @jeremycorbyn has made it onto the ballot for next @UKLabour leader.”