London mayor Sadiq Khan, whose official day job is running the capital, is in New York this week, where he has denounced Donald Trump and urged Americans to vote for Kamala Harris. Trump would set the wrong tone for the rest of the world, Khan declared. ‘What I’d say in a respectful way to Americans is: I don’t think you realise that the rest of the world is watching because we’ve got skin in the game,’ he said. Come again?
Trump would set the wrong tone for the rest of the world, Khan declared
Americans are choosing a leader for their country. What the world thinks about this – least of all Khan, who almost no one in America will have heard of – is really neither here nor there. No matter: Khan is determined to educate the American public in a way that he thinks only he is qualified to do. London’s mayor warned that a second Trump presidency would have much farther-reaching effects than Americans may realise:
‘What happens in America is the metronome…that sets the best of what happens across the globe’ he said.
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