Government
How Donald Trump Is Helping London's New Mayor
In all the ways that matter, Sadiq Khan’s battle to prove a Muslim has every right to oversee the U.K. capital is already won.
London elected its first Muslim mayor earlier this month, and to the honest surprise of many Londoners, the rest of the world seems pretty taken aback.
Following a landslide victory for the Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan on May 5, global media have come across as somewhat stunned that this son of Pakistani immigrants is now leading the E.U.’s largest city. As the news filtered outside the U.K., media in Germany, Italy, and Spain all splashed the new mayor’s Muslim background first and foremost, while the French media so fixated on it that it ended up producing think pieces pondering exactly why.