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SOL CAMPBELL, THE FORMER England and Arsenal defender, has confirmed he is running for mayor of London.
Campbell will seek the Conservative Party nomination to replace Boris Johnson. He will take part in his first event with other hopeful candidates next month, saying he wants to “change London for everybody”.
The 40-year-old won 73 caps for England during an 11 year international and played for 19 years in the Premier League.
He began his career at Tottenham Hotspur before controversially joining North London rivals Arsenal in 2001 where he won two Premier Leagues and two FA Cups. He later played for Portsmouth before briefly returning to Arsenal in 2010.
The former footballer declared his political interests when he became an outspoken critic of Ed Miliband’s plans to levy a mansion tax if Labour had been elected to government last month.
Despite rumours that he would stand for parliament he later ruled out running for the safe Tory seat in Kensington and Chelsea although he did campaign alongside the party’s candidates during the election.
Declaring his mayoral ambitions today, Campbell told The Sun: “People that have gone to Oxbridge, had thousands spent on their education, and I mean they are royally mucking up. “I bring something new to the table.
“This is a whole new road for me, something I can get my teeth into but I just felt it was something I had to do.
“I come from a working class background, I wasn’t easy for me at all, but I worked hard. And now it’s about giving something back.”
Campbell would face stiff competition from more prominent Tory politicians like MP Zac Goldsmith, who is tipped to be a potential challenger.
Others in the race so far are entrepreneur Ivan Massow, current deputy mayor Stephen Greenhalgh and London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
The mayoral election takes place on 5 May next year with current incumbent Boris Johnson retaining the role in the interim despite being elected to parliament last month.
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A star in the making. Good on you Sarah
Well done
Just persevere. Do your best and be proud!
Great run from Andrew Coscoran also
6th in the 3000m
there’s no medal for sixth
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: You know your stuff.
@john kenny: do you wear a little pair of panties?
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: you got gold, for being the best clown
Hope she’s not reading this, she done her best today was not her day, she was placed and proud.
@Phillip Smyth: I doubt she gives a s*** what the bitter little reprobates have to say.
She did herself and her country proud which is more than these saddos will ever achieve.
@Fergus O’Donnell: dead right Fergus do know if she receiving
@Phillip Smyth: do you know if she’s receiving plaudits for her finishing she seems to be getting raw deals this is not right
@Phillip Smyth: She finished sixth of 12 in a world final. First European home. Exactly as anyone who knows the sport would have predicted.
can’t comment on genocide in gaza, Israel’s a disgrace
@Joe Doyle: release the Hamas held hostages and remove the reason for Israel being in Gaza
@Joe Doyle: The excellent UK radio station LBC constantly covers almost daily what’s happening in the Middle East and allows its listeners to voice their opinions on the matter unlike here in Ireland, public debate on anything is blatantly and deliberately ignored by our media, free speech in the Irish version of democracy I’m afraid is non existent, our last general election is a perfect example of that where the general public were completely ignored by our pathetic media both radio and Television and not facilitated in any debate whatsoever to voice their opinions.
@James Gorman: Hamas was created by Israel and no one else, ever hear of the expression James “Divide And Conquer”?, now do yourself a favour and investigate how Hamas was created and financed but first take off the blinkers, perhaps you may also check out “The Bibi Files Documentary” that has exposed the horrible individual and his family that are in power in Israel, It will also give an insight into some of the extreme far fight racists in Netanyahu’s government.
Sixth lol
@Mr. Biggins: u couldn’t run a bath
@Mr. Biggins: Imagine how meaningless your life must be to spend your time on here trolling. What a los*r.
It’s a pity that she didn’t have the kick on power in the final three laps. It’s a learning curve and she did Ireland proud.
Sarah is tough as nails
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