{"id":7180,"date":"2017-12-01T06:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2017-12-01T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:21:31","slug":"london-mayor-urges-uks-may-to-cancel-trump-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-mayor-urges-uks-may-to-cancel-trump-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor urges UK\u2019s May to cancel Trump state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6575\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sadik-Khan.jpg\" alt=\"Sadik Khan\" width=\"339\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sadik-Khan.jpg 339w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sadik-Khan-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/>The mayor of London has added his voice to calls for President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to Britain to be canceled over his retweets of a British far-right group.<br \/>\nSadiq Khan says Trump has promoted \u201ca vile, extremist group\u201d and an official visit by him to Britain \u201cwould not be welcomed.\u201d<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s retweeting of anti-Muslim videos from far-right group Britain First has been widely condemned in Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s official spokesman said the president was wrong to have done it.<br \/>\nIn response, Trump urged May to focus on \u201cthe destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,\u201d rather than on him.<br \/>\nDowning St. and the White House both say a state visit by Trump is planned, but no date has been set.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/london-mayor-urges-uks-may-to-cancel-trump-state-visit\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of London has added his voice to calls for President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to Britain to be canceled over his retweets of a British far-right group. Sadiq Khan says Trump has promoted \u201ca vile, extremist group\u201d and an official visit by him to Britain \u201cwould not be welcomed.\u201d Trump\u2019s retweeting of anti-Muslim &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}