Watch Sadiq Khan DJ at youth club ahead of London mayoral election

Sadiq Khan has appeared behind the decks at a London youth membership.

The footage, fshared by The Telegraph, exhibits the London Mayor paying a “mini-set” at Croydon Voluntary Motion final Monday. 

The clip depicts Khan mixing Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ with Jack Harlow’s ‘Lovin’ On Me’, shouting “you already know you wanna dance” to the viewers. It additionally exhibits the Mayor clapping alongside to Rick Astley’s 1987 hit ‘By no means Gonna Give You Up’. 

The footage was shared forward of right now’s Mayoral election. “DJ Khan is out there for bar mitzvahs, weddings, and birthdays,” he joked to The Telegraph. 

Highlighting the significance of neighborhood initiatives like Croydon Voluntary Motion, Khan advised reporters: “What we’ve seen over the past 14 years is plenty of youth golf equipment closing down, plenty of youth staff shedding their jobs as a consequence of Conservative austerity.”

“What we’ve tried to do is assist youth staff and youth golf equipment, usually bringing them collectively as a result of we’re duplicating providers, duplicating provision… This isn’t nearly decreasing crime, it’s additionally about younger individuals flourishing and thriving, so plenty of issues we’re doing from Metropolis Corridor.”

Sadiq Khan at present leads by double digits over his rival, Susan Corridor, within the opinion polls for the Mayoral election. A victory for him would mark a historic third time period in Metropolis Corridor.

Over the previous few years, Sadiq Khan has proposed a number of plans to help London’s nightlife sector, which has been grappling with the consequences of the price of residing disaster, austerity, and the pandemic. 

In response to the price of residing disaster and the impression of the pandemic on the capital’s clubbing scene, Sadiq Khan has laid out a sequence of plans lately to assist the nightlife sector. 

In 2020, he pledged £450,000 to grassroots venues affected by COVID-19. The next 12 months, he launched a £6 million marketing campaign to assist reside music, tradition, and hospitality within the capital. Final November, he rejected plans for a Las Vegas-style MSG Sphere enviornment in Stratford.

Revisit Georgia Mulraine’s lengthy learn on the way forward for London clubbing right here. 

Watch the clip beneath.