London Mayor Sadiq says Trump’s state visit to UK should be cancelled

LONDON: Hitting tack at US President Donald Trump, Mayor London Sadiq Khan stated that Trump’s state visit to Britain should be cancelled.

The Telegraph reported, Sadiq Khan, while speaking to Channel 4 News, said US President had been wrong about many things and the government should cancel his state visit to UK.

Donald Trump is expected to visit Britain in October.

Khan says he does not think they should roll out the red carpet to the US President in the circumstances where his policies go against everything they stand for.

According to Reuters, President Donald Trump had accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday of making a "pathetic excuse" over one of his comments in the wake of the attack that killed seven people in London.

Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017

Khan had said in one of his first statements in reaction to the attack that people would see an increased police presence on the streets of the capital and should not be alarmed by that.

When Londoners face adversity we pull together. We stand up for our values and our way of life. We stand together. pic.twitter.com/AJJMJjBIDp

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) June 6, 2017

"Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his ´no reason to be alarmed´ statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!" Trump said in a Tweet.

MSM referred to mainstream media.

Trump had faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday over an earlier Tweet attacking Khan. 

Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he saw no reason to cancel Donald Trump´s state visit to Britain after the U.S. president criticised Mayor Sadiq Khan´s response to the London Bridge killings.

"He (Khan) is entirely right to say what he said to reassure the people of his city about the presence of armed officers on the streets," Johnson said in a BBC radio interview in response to a question on whether Trump´s state visit should be cancelled.

"The invitation has been issued and accepted and I see no reason to change that but as far as what Sadiq Khan has said about the reassurances he´s offered the people of London, I think he was entirely right to speak in the way he did."

"I don´t wish to enter into a row between those two individuals who are I think are probably perfectly able to stick up for themselves," he said of Trump and Khan. (Reuters/Web)