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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Sadiq Khan - ‘Had I known what it involved, I can’t say I’d have gone into politics’
Description: Q. What connects the grandson of Pakistani immigrants, the son of a seamstress and bus driver, Â one of eight children raised in a three-bedroomed council flat in Tooting, a human rights lawyer, former Labour Cabinet Minister, Liverpool football fan AND the Mayor of London?
A. They are ALL Sadiq Khan.
At 53, Khan has lived many lives - in his latest incarnation, he is the three-time London Mayor (although he says he wants to serve for six terms). Today, he joins me on How To Fail to discuss the personal and professional failures that shaped him...