London Mayor Sadiq Khan is opposed to the United Kingdom hosting Trump for a state visit.
“Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet, we shouldn’t have a state banquet,” Khan said Friday in an interview with British talk radio station LBC.
Citing Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the only two presidents to make state visits to the U.K., Khan said, “President Trump is not in the same class as those two.”
View the complete May 12 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.