London Mayor Sadiq Khan has once again involved himself in American politics, expressing concerns about his safety if Donald Trump were to return to the White House.
He also urged the left-wing Labour Party to openly back Kamala Harris’s campaign.
The far-left Mayor of London, known for his ongoing verbal clashes with former President Donald Trump, expressed his personal fears about the Republican nominee winning the presidential election this November in an interview with the globalist New Statesman.
“The last time we had a Trump presidency, as a matter of public record, there was a massive increase in hate crime towards me… I worry about what a second Trump presidency would mean for me and my family, but I’m not going to allow these people to cower me. It makes me even more determined to do my job,” Khan told the British news magazine.
Khan, a prominent figure in the Labour Party, diverged from the party’s current stance by calling for an open endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential race.
With the potential of needing to negotiate with a second Trump administration, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s new government has adopted a more neutral stance. Meanwhile, officials like Foreign Secretary David Lammy have been sent to Washington to meet with Trump allies, including his current running mate, JD Vance.
It’s unclear how effective this rebranding will be, considering Lammy’s history of harshly criticizing Trump. He has previously labeled the American leader as a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath.”
Mayor Khan argued that the leftist party should stop concealing its true preferences in the race, stating: “It’s obvious what my politics are. I’m a member of the Labour Party – we’re a social democratic party. I want the Democrats to win.”
“It’s no secret many Labour Party members go and volunteer for the Democrats during presidential elections. We shouldn’t pretend otherwise. Many of my staffers helped all three: Obama, Clinton and Biden,” Khan said.
“I’ve been so impressed with Tim Walz. It just shows the judgment that Kamala Harris has in relation to her choice for vice president. Compare and contrast that with the choice made by the other guy, in JD Vance,” he added.
The far-left mayor gained international notoriety through his feud with Trump, which started in 2017 when Khan called for then-President Trump to be denied a state visit to the UK during his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II.
Khan argued that Trump should not be afforded the normal niceties granted to U.S. leaders because he used “xenophobia, racism, and ‘otherness’ as an electoral tactic,” asserting that Trump only cared about “White America.”
In response, Trump labeled the London Mayor a ‘stone-cold loser’ for his inability to curb the rise in knife crime in the British capital. Earlier this year, Trump continued his criticism, claiming that under Khan’s leadership, London has become “no longer recognizable” because it has “opened its doors to jihad.”
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