THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: London mayor says US president has ‘perhaps done the most’ to encourage far right
Donald Trump has arrived in the UK on Tuesday night to a barrage of criticism from Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who has accused the US president of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the globe.
In what will be considered to be a direct challenge to Keir Starmer’s government to take a more robust stance towards Trump, Khan said the president’s use of the military in cities and targeting of minorities was “straight out of the autocrat’s playbook”.
In a last-minute blow to Starmer before Trump’s highly contentious state visit, a plan to finally announce a deal to eliminate tariffs on British aluminium and steel into the US has fallen apart, the Guardian has been told. » | Peter Walker, Senior political correspondent | Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The second state visit of this appalling man is enough to turn me, a one-time staunch royalist, into a republican! I am giving the idea some serious thought. Why on earth are we a-licking this dreadful, cruel and corrupt man? The royal family loses its lustre entertaining such leaders. Would our royal family have considered giving Hitler a state visit in the Thirties? — © Mark Alexander
