Overview

• President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to call Sadiq Khan a "terrible, terrible mayor" and said London "wants to go to Sharia law."
• Khan responded by calling Trump racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic, while highlighting record American visitors and investment in London.
• Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Trump was misreading London and stressed the UK has British law, as ministers defended the capital without echoing Khan’s language.
• Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan urged the government to summon U.S. ambassador Warren Stephens to challenge what she called rampant Islamophobia.
• UK outlets noted that Sharia councils exist informally but have no legal standing, and the clash revives a years-long feud between Trump and the London mayor.