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Victory in capital came after challenger Shaun Bailey polled better than expected

Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be London Mayor after getting 1.8 per cent of the vote. The actor, 42, who set up the Reclaim Party for his election race, won 47,634 votes placing him in sixth, behind YouTuber Niko Omilana whose policies included 'Boris Johnson will be forced to shush' and 'the price of Fredos will go back to 5p'. Candidates need five per cent of first-preference votes to get back their deposits, which only three candidates surpassed: Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey and the Green's Sian Berry. Laurence Fox has lost his £10,000 deposit for his bid to be Lo...

The 42-year-old actor, whose Reclaim Party campaigned on an anti-lockdown platform, lost his £10,000 deposit after winning just 1.8 per cent of the vote, compared with Sadiq Khan's 55 per cent.

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has won a second term as Mayor of London, beating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey by a narrower than expected margin. He won more than one million first-preference votes in the contest, but turnout was only 42%. In his victory speech, Mr Khan said he wanted to “build a brighter future” for London after coronavirus. The incumbent gained 1,013,721 first-preference votes compared to Bailey’s 893,051, then a further 192,313...

Laurence Fox, the former actor and self-style “anti-woke” campaigner, has lost his deposit in the London mayoral election after receiving less than 2 per cent of votes. Mr Fox, who set up his Reclaim Party to run in the race and campaigned on a platform of scrapping the coronavirus lockdown, won 47,634 ballot papers - 1.9 per cent of votes - in Thursday’s election. As a result, he has lost his £10,000 deposit paid to London Elects, the Greater...