{"id":10177,"date":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","slug":"london-mayor-knighted-by-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10177","title":{"rendered":"London Mayor knighted by King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been knighted by King Charles for his outstanding services that included Khan&#8217;s efforts for improving London&#8217;s air quality, provision of free school meals, and increase in council housing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recognition, Khan faced fierce criticism from senior Conservative politicians, alongside a mammoth petition that amassed 220,000 signatures, aiming to prevent the knighthood.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Khan&#8217;s knighthood was made on December 30, 2024, in the New Year&#8217;s Honours list.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the backlash, which included nearly 30 petitions being submitted to revoke the honor, the Mayor&#8217;s knighthood proceeded without change.<\/p>\n<p>In defence of Khan, Foreign Secretary David Lammy expressed pride in the UK&#8217;s ability to elevate individuals from humble beginnings, noting Khan&#8217;s rise from being the son of a bus driver to a knight.<\/p>\n<p>Lammy also acknowledged Khan&#8217;s efforts to improve London&#8217;s air quality, provide free school meals, and increase council housing.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, reflecting on the honour, expressed his gratitude on social media, emphasising the journey from growing up on a council estate to becoming Mayor of London.<\/p>\n<p>Taking his X handle, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted, &#8220;The London promise: if you work hard, and get a helping hand, you can achieve anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immensely proud to receive a knighthood from His Majesty The King. Growing up on a council estate in Tooting, I never imagined I&#8217;d one day receive this great honour while serving as Mayor,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been knighted by King Charles for his outstanding services that included Khan&#8217;s efforts for improving London&#8217;s air quality, provision of free school meals, and increase in council housing. Despite the recognition, Khan faced fierce criticism from senior Conservative politicians, alongside a mammoth petition that amassed 220,000 signatures, aiming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}