London’s newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan has said he will visit before US presidential elections this year “in case Donald Trump wins”, in a reference to the presumptive Republican nominee’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the country.
Khan, who is the first Muslim mayor in a major western capital, expressed admiration for his counterparts in New York and Chicago and said he wanted to meet them.
In an interview with Time magazine, Khan said “if Trump becomes the president I will be stopped from goring there, which means I can’t engage with American mayors and swap ideas.”
Sadiq added: “Conservative [party] tacticians thought those sort of tactics would win London and they were wrong. I’m confident that Donald Trump’s approach to politics won’t win in America.”
In December, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown” of the country’s borders to Muslims in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack in California.
He said there was such hatred among Muslims towards Americans that it was necessary to stop them coming to the US until the problem was better understood.
