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Trump Can't Stop Attacking London

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Testing the limits of the Special Relationship: London Mayor Sadiq Khan (right) has said that the UK should cancel an upcoming state visit by President Donald Trump.   Reuters Trump Can't Stop Attacking London FEARGUS O'SULLIVAN   JUN 6, 2017 The president’s criticism of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s response to the latest terror attack has put Prime Minister Theresa May in a very tight spot.   SHARE TWEET President Trump should not get a state visit to Britain. So said London Mayor Sadiq Khan  last night , following  Trump’s Twitter comments  castigating Mayor Khan for his response to the horrific attacks in London on Saturday. Talking to Britain’s Channel Four News, the mayor said: “I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for…. When you have a special relationship it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand with them ...

London's Richest Neighborhood Just Voted Labour. That's Astounding.

Sign pointing to a polling station in Kensington, West London, where Labour won an unprecedented victory.   Stefan Wermuth/Reuters London's Richest Neighborhood Just Voted Labour. That's Astounding. FEARGUS O'SULLIVAN   JUN 9, 2017 Theresa May’s Conservatives received a shocking drubbing in the U.K. elections. The results from one affluent London enclave offer a clue about why.   SHARE TWEET It’s been an extremely dramatic election night across the U.K., where Theresa May’s Conservative Party defied expectations by losing its majority, albeit not as yet its ability to form a government. Over a night where  Conservatives unexpectedly lost seat after seat , one district stood out even more than the others: the small but incredibly wealthy London district of  Kensington . It’s thanks to Kensington, the richest constituency in Britain, that a result can’t fully be called yet. After  two botched counts  during the night, polling staff wer...