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The Ugly Racial Politics of London's Mayoral Campaign

As Londoners head to the polls Thursday, they must contend with an election mired in appalling rhetoric.
London Mayoral candidates Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan outside the U.K. parliament.Toby Melville/Reuters

As it elects a new mayor today, London is sitting on a knife-edge watching a neck-and-neck race between two brilliant, but radically different candidates.

Actually, none of that’s true. Bar a massive upset, everyone knows who will win today’s election to replace incumbent Boris Johnson: the Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan is currently 14 points ahead of his Conservative rival, Zac Goldsmith.