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WATCH: Howard Cox takes aim at 'anti-British' Sadiq Khan following knighthood
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Jun 10, 2025
London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been "rewarded for failure" after receiving a knighthood from the King, former mayoral candidate Howard Cox has claimed.Speaking to GB News, Cox declared he feels "physically sick" after seeing Khan being given the top honour at Buckingham Palace.FULL STORY HERE.
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Well, those are two questions I'm now going to put to the former candidate for the Mayor of London, Howard Cox, for his take
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Howard Cox, always a pleasure to have your company. So how did the words arise, Sir Sadiq Khan, make you feel today
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Hello, Martin. Long time no speak. Good to see you, mate. Honestly, look, you know what I think
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And, you know, we should be after the watershed before I could actually say anything. but I just got back from a campaign meeting
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because I'm preparing for the spending reviews tomorrow regarding fuel duty and things like that for Fairfield UK
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And I came back and I've got a skilled contractor, a building contractor doing some work in my home
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And he said to me, Howard, have you heard? Sadiq Khan is now Sir Sadiq Khan
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And the words he actually used are so colourful. You cannot, honestly, he's discussed in colourful language
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cannot be repeated. I mean, how has an anti-British politician who has destroyed London's economy and, as you know, the road infrastructure can be knighted, I believe, is sick
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Well, Howard Cox, a lot of people might say, depending on your political allegiance as well, you know, he's put cycle lanes in, he's brought LTNs in, he's made the air cleaner, he's after a cleaner, greener future where we can all dance with unicorns
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unicorns, should not that be worthy of a gong from His Majesty
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Look, violent crime's up. I'm going to go through some stats I quickly put together
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Violent crime since he's been involved is up 35%. Sexual offences, 51%
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There's a rape reported every hour. Homicides up 5%. Knife crime up 54%
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Machetes you can get on every corner of the street now with him. Trains covered in graffiti
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Jews are scared to go into London. Not building affordable housing, as he promised
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He ignored public consultations which is where I was very close on the ULES expansion which two out of three people are against He just said forget it I ignoring that We still going ahead with it
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And he lied about the emissions impacts that 4000 people were dying because of emissions
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One person has been actually on any death certificate for that. And my point is this. It's very, very simple. He's been rewarded for failure
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And yet I just don't understand. And I'd love to know, Martin. And as Craig, my contractor, said, who actually recommended him for a knighthood
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As you alluded to in your question, is this just a default thing
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Because he's mayor of London, he gets a knighthood. These are the sorts of things that's really upset me beyond belief
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And, yeah, I have to say to you, I feel very emotional, very upset
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and physically sick about this man being rewarded for failure. Yeah. How Cox, clearly, you know
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there's no love lost between yourself and Sir Sadiq Khan. What about the broader topic of
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should we just do away with gongs for politicians full stop? Because it doesn't matter who you support
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somebody's going to be upset. Baroness Margaret Thatcher, no doubt you would believe
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was highly deserving of that award. A lot of people would disagree
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Gavin Williamson got one. A lot of people believe David Cameron's hairdresser
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You know, this sort of thing. Should we just be stopping people in politics getting gongs full stop
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Because whoever you give a gong to, somebody somewhere is going to be extremely unhappy
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Well, my feeling has always been this way. If you're paid to do the job and you do it well, that's enough for reward
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You get paid to do it and that sort of thing. But if you're a volunteer and there's a lot of people out there day and day and night
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delivering things voluntarily, helping people beyond belief, who are not rewarded, they're not noticed by the media, etc.
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because they're not a sexy person or a sexy name. They're not a sexy person
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