May condemns Trump over London tweets

Theresa May has directly condemned US President Donald Trump’s Twitter attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan as “wrong”.

Mr Trump fired off a series of critical tweets over Mr Khan’s handling of the London Bridge terror attack, mocking the mayor’s comments that there was “no reason to be alarmed” over armed police on the streets.

Mr Khan has called for the US President’s planned state visit to the UK to be scrapped, but Mrs May said Mr Trump’s controversial trip would go ahead.

The row between Mr Trump and Mr Khan saw the US President dismiss criticism of his original post on the subject by redoubling his attack, accus- ing Mr Khan of making a “pathetic excuse”.

The Prime Minister said: “I think Donald Trump is wrong in what he said about Sadiq Khan, in relation to the attack on London Bridge.

“We’ve been working with Sadiq Khan. When you’re working in the aftermath of an attack like that, party politics is put to one side.”

The mayor has been at meetings of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee and “we’ve been working with him to ensure the response was right, and to get London moving again”, she added.

Asked if Mr Trump’s official trip to Britain will go ahead, Mrs May said: “Yes”.

Mr Khan said the invite to Trump was “premature.”