Sentences with phrase «son of a bus driver»
Born in Rochdale in 1969, he is — like the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan — a Muslim son of a bus driver who has risen to the top of British politics.
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The Muslim son of a bus driver entered parliament in 2010 and was quickly promoted to Osborne's parliamentary aide.
The awkward exchange is likely to be seized upon by aides of Sadiq Khan, who are keen to portray their man as a down - to - Earth son of a bus driver - and Goldsmith as a privileged outsider and «serial underachiever».
He says he's surprised to be doing it as he's «not the son of a bus driver» in reference to business secretary Sajid Javid, before adding «why is it that we have to wait so long for these sons of a bus driver and then two come along at once?»
«I'm a fighter, someone who is ready to work their socks off» says Mr Khan, who grew up as the son of a bus driver on a council estate in the same Tooting constituency where he has served as MP since 2005.
The left - winger, the son of a bus driver, beat the former frontrunner to be Labour's candidate in next year's London mayor elections
The son of a bus driver, Mr Khan worked as a human rights solicitor before becoming an MP in 2005.
Labour candidate Sadiq Khan is the son of a bus driver who describes the housing crisis as «the single biggest barrier to prosperity».
The dream that means the son of a bus driver from Pakistan serves in a Conservative Cabinet alongside the son of a single mother from a council estate in South - West London.
Goldsmith is a millionaire old Etonian while Khan is the son of a bus driver.
«Some of you may or may not know, I'm the son of a bus driver.
Crabb and Javid will hope to define themselves with their «blue - collar Conservative» credentials — Crabb was raised in a council house by a single mother; Javid is the son of a bus driver — in contrast to the Old Etonian Johnson.
Could that be changing under Sadiq, the son of a bus driver?
For those of you who don't know the story, it's about the son of a bus driver, who grows up in the Bronx, right down the block from a mafia hangout.