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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Donald Trump’s sharia law attack on Sadiq Khan outrages Labour MPs

Sadiq Khan gives a speech
A spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said London’s mayor would not respond to Donald Trump’s ‘bigoted comments’. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

Keir Starmer is facing demands from Labour MPs to reprimand Donald Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”, Sadiq Khan.

In an address to the UN general assembly, 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.”

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