US president Donald Trump has claimed in an address to the United Nations that London wants to “go to sharia law”.
Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump again attacked London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and also criticised UN assistance for asylum seekers.
“I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed,” he said. “Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq said of Trump’s comments: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.”