Sadiq Khan makes rent control key plank of mayor re-election bid

London mayor Sadiq Khan said Londoners ‘overwhelmingly want rent control to happen’.Sadiq Khan is to make a campaign for wide-ranging rent control the key plank of his 2020 re-election bid, asking the government to give the London mayoralty the power to combat soaring rents in the capital.The mayor of London is to work out a blueprint for an overhaul of the laws for private renters to allow new restrictions on rent to be imposed – a change he could not make without legislation