How many mayoral candidates can Londoners name and what are the key issues?

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We speak to Londoners ahead of the mayoral election on May 2.   AMIN Femy Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment BINFACE Count Count Binface for Mayor of London BLACKIE Rob Liberal Democrat CAMPBELL Natalie Denise Independent COX Howard ReformUK – London Deserves Better GALLAGHER Amy Social Democratic Party GARBETT Zoë Green Party GHULATI Tarun Independent HALL Susan Mary The Conservative Party Candidate KHAN Sadiq Labour Party MICHLI Andreas Christoffi Independent ROSE Brian Benedict London Real Party – Transform London SCANLON Nick Britain First – No To Immigration

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00:00The London mayoral election is taking place this week on May 2nd. Locals in the capital

00:08will be heading down to the polling station with IDs to cast their vote. But how many

00:13candidates can Londoners actually name, is the election important and what are the key

00:18issues that need to be addressed?

00:21How many candidates do you know that are running? Could you name some candidates?

00:25Do you know, I can only actually name that Sadiq Khan is standing.

00:30What's your thoughts on the mayoral election? Is it an important thing?

00:35I think it is important. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and he was

00:40like saying that he's going for an independent candidate because he's worried about the crime

00:44rate. I, to be honest, I haven't looked much further because I'm going to vote for Sadiq

00:49and so therefore I haven't, maybe I should have looked into all the others as well, but

00:53I just felt that that's who I would vote for.

00:56If you could focus on one thing about London, what would it be?

00:59I would say EULAs. You know, it's difficult for a lot of builders. I do labour and stuff

01:04and it's a lot of money to get your tools up and down. Transport, you don't do it.

01:09So you'd say it's a big issue then, EULAs?

01:11It is a big issue and it's killing a lot of trades and costing a lot of money just to

01:17get into their workplaces.

01:19Is that mainly because the vans are diesel as well?

01:21Yeah, because they're slightly older and it's a lot of money to get a new van. You can't

01:25all do it.

01:26If there was one thing in London that you could improve on, what would it be?

01:30Okay, so when I came to London, the picture of London in my head, it was like a clean

01:37city. So it is clean but not everywhere. So if I were the mayor, I would go for the, you

01:45know, cleaning each corner. Like when we go to Luton or Ilford, it's not a good idea

01:53to look at the streets at all corners. So it's not that much clean.

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