THE TORIES were missing in action yesterday after Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
The President of the United States of America used his social media to share a tweet by the provocative journalist Katie Hopkins, in which she referred to London as “stab-city” and “Khan’s Londonistan”.
Her comments came as three men were killed in separate attacks on Friday and Saturday.
Trump followed his message a few hours later with further criticism of Khan: “He is a national disgrace who is destroying the City of London!”
A spokesperson for Khan said he was not going to “waste his time” responding to the tweet.
Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said it was “absolutely awful to see [Donald Trump] using the tragedy of people being murdered to attack the mayor”.
He wrote: “[Sadiq Khan] is rightly supporting the police to do their job while Katie Hopkins spreads hateful and divisive rhetoric. They seek to divide at a time we need to come together.”
After the first two deaths Khan said he was “sickened to hear that two young lives have been ended within minutes of each other”.
He added: “Our overstretched police are working around the clock to keep Londoners safe.”
The Muslim Council of Britain urged the government figures to speak out against Trump’s decision to retweet Hopkins.
A spokesman for the group said: “Whatever political differences our government or the Conservative party may have with Sadiq Khan, we would expect a clear and swift condemnation of Donald Trump’s consistent endorsement of British bigots.”
Trump has previously challenged Khan to an IQ test.
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