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Sadiq Khan has warned that UK politicians must not be “sycophantic” towards Donald Trump when he re-enters the White House, as the London mayor said he still planned to “speak up” over the behaviour of the incoming US president. He said the “special relationship” between the US and UK should allow British politicians to act like “a best mate” and tell hard truths to the president.
” Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a European capital, became embroiled in a war of words with Trump during his first presidency by criticising a US travel ban on people from certain Muslim countries. Trump at the time accused Khan of being a “stone cold loser” who was doing a “very bad job on terrorism”. In 2018 during a Trump visit to the UK the mayor allowed a blimp of the president dressed as a baby to fly above Parliament Square.
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