A doctor who does not support the recent junior doctor strikes is one of the candidates for the Tooting by-election next month.
Zia Samadani is standing as an independent candidate in the June 16 election and said she was inspired by Sadiq Khan, although she is a former member of the Conservative Party.
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Dr Samadani, 57, said: "He worked from the grassroots and then I came up which makes me think that I can do the same.
"I was in the Conservatives for seven years, but I quite because they did not hold their promises."
In her day job, Dr Samadani, who lives in Sutton, works as a regional advisor on drugs and medicines, but at the weekend she hosts a television show on Pakistani politics and another on education and lifestyle.
She said: "Party politics means the candidates from the party is bound to the party and they cannot go out, they have to listen to the party.
"I am telling people that I am independent and I am listening to their problems and I will try to solve them."
Dr Samadani said her priorities would be getting high standards in schools, help for housing and benefits.
She is pro bringing Crossrail 2 to Tooting Broadway and believes that Britain should stay in the European Union.
Dr Samadani did not support the recent junior doctors strikes, saying patients were "crying out" during the strike periods.
She said: "I have a lot of plans for the NHS.
"The money is going somewhere where it is not needed.
"If they really think about how to get that money into the right places then this would not be a problem.
"I am against the junior doctor strikes, they can sit down and they can talk about everything.
"The losers are the patients."
Dr Samadani said she would try to make Tooting a more "family friendly" area, in a bid to reduce knife crime.
She said: "Knife crime is not just a problem in Tooting, it is a problem everywhere.
"My aim would be to make a family friendly Tooting, and a happy and healthy Tooting.
"We can have more policing and I will take all the youngsters to some programme so they will be busy in that instead of going into gangs."
The by-election will be held on June 16, with the count taking place the same night.
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