In a series of incidents, Labour’s Sadiq Khan (left) promoted organisations that have advocated violence against women, been accused in Parliament of spreading anti-Semitism and homophobia, and staged events featuring extremists and terrorists. At one he gave a speech while the ‘black flag of jihad’ was openly flying (right). The revelations will come as a major embarrassment for the mayoral hopeful, who has called on his colleagues to stop ‘burying their heads in the sand’ about radicalisation, and has spoken publicly of his concerns that his own daughter will become an extremist.

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