'We need to pick things up - we are 2-0 down!'

LABOUR needs to “really pick things up’ after a “tough” first year in government, Sir Sadiq Khan has insisted.

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The London Mayor said Labour supporters would be “delusional” if they did not recognise the difficulties the party had had since winning power in July 2024.

After taking Labour into power at Downing Street for the first time since 2010, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has seen his party's popularity slump in the polls, amid criticism over issues such as welfare reforms.

“It’s been a tough first year,” Sir Sadiq conceded.

Speaking at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he insisted that Labour supporters “need to have the humility to recognise” that “otherwise we are being delusional”.