LGBT activist Michael Cashman endorses Sadiq Khan’s London Mayor bid

LGBT activist Michael Cashman has endorsed Sadiq Khan’s bid to be London Mayor.

Khan is one of six peopled standing to be Labour’s candidate for the mayoral position. Cashman, founder of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity Stonewall, has announced he will be supporting Khan in his effort to become the Labour candidate for this role.

Cashman is also a Labour peer. Last year Ed Miliband appointed him to be Labour’s  special envoy on LGBT issues worldwide. He declared his support for the Totting MP in a video today (which you can see below), in which he describes Khan as a ‘person of great integrity’ who has the “courage to fight injustice” and “the guts to stand-up against discrimination”

Khan’s latest backer was a member of the European Parliament for fifteen years and is now a member of the House of Lords. He has argued that as a lifelong Londoner he knows how the capital should be represented. Cashman says Khan has the “experience of multicultural London” and “the experience of being made to feel different” – all these qualities, he says, would lend themselves well to the position of Mayor.

Khan has welcomed Cashman’s endorsement, saying that he is “proud and humbled” to have the support of some someone he admires “immensely” and with whom he shares  “a common vision for the future of our great city”.

Here’s Cashman’s endorsement in full: