Keir Starmer is facing demands from Labour MPs to reprimand Donald Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”, Sadiq Khan. In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Starmer has repeatedly cited the ability to avoid the worst of US tariffs as a reason for his largely conciliatory approach to Trump. “The US ambassador should be summoned and challenged over Trump’s rampant Islamophobia,” she wrote on X. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementIn an article in the Guardian shortly before the state visit, Khan said the US president had “perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years”.