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Sadiq Khan on mens mental health and suffering a minor heart attack at COP26

Sadiq Khan has revealed he may have suffered a “minor heart attack” after falling ill at a climate change conference.The mayor said that “out of nowhere, I felt a knot in my chest – a kind of tightening” and had to be helped off the stage.“It was COP26 in Glasgow and I seemed to be having a heart attack,” he recounts in dramatic detail in his book, Breathe, which is published this week.Mr Khan’s aides on Sunday night told the Standard that he was “in rude health” and not on heart-related medication as a result of the health scare 18 months ago.