Who’s Daniel Korski? The former warfare reporter looking for to grow to be London mayor

Daniel Korski is promoting himself on the thought of the “London dream” in his bid to grow to be town’s mayor.

The Tory London mayor hopeful is the son of refugees who fled Poland through the political disaster of the late Sixties.

Born in Denmark, he moved to the UK in 1997 and says he “lived the London dream” when he arrived.

Here, Sky News seems at Mr Korski’s profession and marketing campaign priorities as he seeks to exchange Sadiq Khan.

Party: Conservative
Campaigning priorities: Scrapping ULEZ, introducing a vacationer tax to pay for extra police
Notable achievements: Awarded a CBE in David Cameron’s resignation honours

Political background

Mr Korski studied on the London School of Economics (LSE) and Cambridge earlier than getting into a profession in diplomacy, politics and know-how.

He served as David Cameron’s deputy head of coverage from 2013 to 2016 and earlier than that was an adviser to Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell.

He was a vocal stay supporter within the Brexit referendum, serving to to run the Stronger In marketing campaign.

Last yr, he labored on Tom Tugendhat’s unsuccessful bid for chief of the Conservative Party. Mr Tugendhat has backed his bid for mayor.

He has by no means held a place of elected workplace.

Technology, diplomacy and warzones

Mr Korski’s profession has spanned enterprise, know-how and politics.

He is the co-founder and CEO of PUBLIC, which helps know-how corporations to work with the general public sector.

He was beforehand adviser to the vice-president of the European Commission and has labored for the UN and the UK Foreign Office in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.

He additionally labored as a warfare correspondent from Libya, the place he reported for The Spectator.

Mr Korski has been a vp of the Jewish Leadership Council since 2019.

Campaigning priorities

Mr Korski says he desires to introduce a brand new vacationer tax to pay for extra police.

He additionally desires to construct denser housing in central London utilizing land owned by Transport for London, and streamline planning permissions.

He has referred to as for the ULEZ enlargement to be scrapped and stated “smart” street consumer charging might be launched as an alternative, monitoring probably the most polluting automobiles and charging accordingly.

The Tory mayoral candidate for London is anticipated to be introduced on 19 July, with the London mayoral election going down on 2 May 2024.