London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he does not feel safe as a Muslim politician and was “triggered” by far-right riots across the UK in recent weeks. Khan expressed alarm at the recent violence following the killing of three girls in Southport on 29 July, which was wrongly blamed on Muslim immigrants, and compared it to the racial tensions he experienced growing up in the 1970s and 80s. “I’m somebody who grew up in the 1970s and 80s and experienced the National Front and the BNP and I thought that’s behind us.
