SADIQ KHAN will today put working-class aspiration at the centre of his campaign to become London mayor.

The Labour candidate will launch a manifesto that he says will allow others to follow his path from a council estate to City Hall. 

“I had the benefit of a good state school, a place at university that I could afford and, ultimately, good jobs for my wife and me that enabled us to buy a family home,” he will say. 

“This manifesto will ensure all Londoners get the opportunities that our city gave to me.”

Top of a 10-point pledge card is a commitment to build thousands of new homes and make 50 per cent of the homes “genuinely affordable.”

He will also promise to implement a fare freeze that means “Londoners won’t pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today.”

In a deliberate display of Labour unity, Mr Khan will launch the manifesto alongside Tessa Jowell, who he beat in the contest to become Labour candidate. He will hope the launch will put his campaign back on track after one of his campaign staff was forced this week to resign over sexist and homophobic posts on social media. 

But he was criticised last night by Green rival Sian Berry for choosing to launch his manifesto in Canary Wharf.

She said: “There’s a definite irony in Sadiq launching a ‘manifesto for all Londoners’ in Canary Wharf, which most Londoners see as the bastion of the very privileged minority.

“He may have grown up on a council estate, but the way many Labour councils are dealing with estates is resulting in the net loss of thousands of our council homes.”