Trump is Islamophobic, says London mayor

During his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed.

“Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that,” he added, referring to the Islamic law code based on the teachings of the Koran.

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Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made a considerable effort to try to stay in Trump’s good books, including with an unprecedented second state visit to the UK last week.

Khan said London was top of many indicators such as foreign investment, adding he was “really proud that we are the greatest city in the world”.

Earlier on Wednesday, government minister Pat McFadden said Trump was “misreading” London.

Khan, who is Muslim, has been London’s mayor since 2016. That year he criticised Trump over the then-presidential hopeful’s proposed travel ban for people from some Muslim-majority countries.

Before Trump’s first state visit in 2019, Khan likened Trump to “European dictators of the 1930s and 40s”.