Sadiq Khan Grows Own ‘EDI Team’ From Zero to Eight Staff – Guido Fawkes

REVEALED: Sadiq Khan Grows Own ‘EDI Team’ From Zero to Eight Staff

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Sadiq Khan has grown the number of diversity roles in the Mayor’s office by an infinite amount. From zero…

When Sadiq was first elected in 2016 there were no EDI officers within the “People Function.” Co-conspirators won’t be surprised by what happened next…

• 2017: Zero
• 2018: One ‘Workforce EDI Manager’ on up to £68,313.
• 2020: Three roles for up to £180,971.
• 2024: Eight roles for up to £491,420.

An FoI release from the GLA has confirmed that Khan ramped up spending on the team to short of half a million pounds of taxpayer cash. As of March this year this was the makeup:

• EDI and Culture Adviser
• EDI and Culture Lead
• EDI Specialist
• Culture, Values and Wellbeing Lead
• Senior Project Officer – Inclusion Programme
• Senior Project Officer – Inclusion Programme
• Senior Project Officer – Inclusion Programme

Khan briefed he was “furious” about the lack of new taxpayer grants handed to him from Westminster at the Spending Review. His EDI team may have helped arrange travel for his deputy mayor to go to a vanity Pride march in Budapest on the taxpayer’s dime. Sack em…