As the MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan represents a constituency that is home to the largest Chicken Cottage in Europe. Not that he seemed proud of this fact at last night’s Evening Standard Labour mayoral hustings.
While the candidates debated how to deal with the spread of high street gambling shops since Labour brought in the Gambling Act, Khan turned his attention to another guilty pleasure: fried chicken.
‘We’ve got too many chicken shops in our town centres. We’ve got too many pawn brokers in our town centres. We’ve got too many gambling shops in our town centres. Elect me to be the London Mayor and we’ll sort all those three things out.’
However Khan may find it hard to win with his current stance on poultry:
So @SadiqKhan NOT getting my vote for Mayor. At hustings he said "London has too many chicken shops" WAR @98rosjon @NandosUK @ChickenShop
— Josh Feldberg – joshfeldberg.bsky.social (@JoshFeldberg) August
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