Who are the candidates and what do they stand for?
Sadiq Khan, Labour Party
Mr Khan, 45, is Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London, having first been elected in 2016.
He was formerly the MP for Tooting and a human rights lawyer.
His reelection campaign is pitched around the central element of employment, with particular attention paid to the tourism and investment sectors.
Mr Khan has pledged to help more than 300,000 Londoners who were left unemployed amid the Covid pandemic and would like to boost the economy by £5m.
The Labour candidate also wishes to boost practical support for business owners and individuals and simplify access to support for small businesses.
Shaun Bailey, Conservative Party
Mr Bailey, 49, has been a member of the London Assembly since 2016 and served as a special adviser to David Cameron during his term as prime minister.
The Conservative contender’s platform is centred on knife crime and reducing the rate of these crimes across the capital.
Mr Bailey plans to increase police patrols in London and boost stop-and-searches to cut crime during his “first 100 days” if elected.
He also intends to use more advanced technology to boost security and cut down the number of knives in public.
Mr Bailey’s crime tackling plan also saw him vow to recruit an additional 8,000 Met Police officers and hire 4,000 youth workers to “tackle the root causes of crime”.
Aside from crime, Mr Bailey is pitching his campaign on helping prospective homebuyers by promised to include a plan to build 100,000 shared ownership houses to be sold for £100,000.
Laurence Fox, Reclaim Party
Mr Fox, 42, is an English actor and political activist, best known for his role on Lewis from 2006 to 2015.
He is standing as a candidate for the Reclaim Party, which Mr Fox launched in 2020 with £5m reportedly donated by supporters.
Nigel Farage and the Reform party have pledged their support for the actor, who has been a critic of the Government’s management of the Covid crisis and has refused publicly to get the vaccine until 2023 over safety concerns.
If elected, Mr Fox wishes to “unlock” Londoners from lockdown and enable them to “reclaim their freedom to move” and “freedom to work”.
Like the Conservative contender, Mr Fox also wants to crack down on crime by reintroducing stop and search and ending the Met’s “obsession with diversity and inclusivity”.
He also intends to scrap Low Traffic Neighborhoods and “underused” cycle lanes.
Count Binface
Count Binface was formerly known as Lord Buckethead, who previously stood against Theresa May in the 2017 general election.
The Count’s policy hints at a rebranding of London infrastructure, with London Bridge due to be renamed Phoebe Waller, after the Fleabag creator.
His manifesto also outlines how the hand dryer in an Uxbridge pub toilet would be relocated to a more sensible location.
Under his policies, mask-wearing would be encouraged indefinitely and those who are anti-vaccination would be banished to the “Phantom Zone”.
The Count would also seek to have London rejoin the EU.
