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WATCH: Fiery debate consumes GB News guests over Sadiq Khan calling Donald Trump 'jealous'
Dec 27, 2025
Watch a debate on Sir Sadiq Khan saying Donald Trump is 'jealous' of London quickly descend into a punchy head-to-head on GB News.The Labour Mayor accused the US President of launching numerous scathing attacks on London because he envies the capital.Sir Sadiq also labelled those on the right of British politics as unpatriotic for trying to tear down London.Joined by political commentator Aisha Ali Khan, businessman Charlie Mullins laid into the "stupid comment", pointing his finger at Sir Sadiq for "ruining London".While Ms Khan insisted London was an "amazing" place to live, Mr Mullins insisted otherwise, with the two quickly becoming embroiled in a fiery row.WATCH THE FULL DEBATE ABOVE
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Yes, Sadiq Khan has labelled those on the right of British politics as unpatriotic for
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trying to tear down London and claims US President Donald Trump is continually attacking the
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capital because he's jealous he hasn't got any global cities that he can compete with
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in the US. Yeah, New York City, tiny gaff. What is he saying
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Goodness me. Right, joining us now is the businessman Charlie Mullins and the political commentator Ayesha
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Ali Khan. Good morning to you both. Merry festive period. Hope you're both wonderfully happy and all
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Let's get into a row about London and Sadiq Khan, shall we? Charlie, what's your reaction to what Sadiq Khan has said
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Well, it's a stupid comment from him. He's the one that's ruined London. Donald Trump clearly has found the fellow out there
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He's a liar. He's a waste of time. He's made London probably one of the worst cities in the world
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but he denies it. He's ruined businesses by the emissions zone. is ruined businesses, nightlife because of increase of costs and safety
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And, you know, to come up with that Donald Trump is jealous over Sadiq Khan is absolutely ridiculous
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I mean, Charlie's right, isn't he, Aisha? London doesn't feel like it's the envy of the world
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Nightlife's bad. High streets are struggling. What's good about London at the moment
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Oh, my God, London is an amazing city. It's one of the best cities ever
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And I was in London literally a few weeks ago. I understand that some people are not happy with the way things have, obviously, crime and so on
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But we have had a reduction in crime. We have had people, the visitors and so on
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And look, Sadiq Khan was voted in for a historic third term only like a year and a half ago, May last year
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So it's wrong to say that Sadiq Khan is ruining London or is causing all these problems
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If anything, it's basically the last 14 years of the cuts to the police
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and so on that have resulted in this increasing crime, not just in London but across the UK in general
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So it's wrong to just blame Sadiq Khan for all of these wrongs going on right now
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I'm going to make you wrong. You're an actress lady and you don't run a business in London
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And believe me, to run a business in London and trying to move around London
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with all the cycle lanes, with all the road closures, with all the additional costs
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Believe me, he's ruined London, he's ruined many businesses and he will continue to do it I mean with the places rammed out with cycle lanes that are empty most of the time the cost to come into London for tradesmen today just isn worth it isn worth opening up a business
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Yes, I have a business there, We Fix London. Unfortunately, I opened that up before the Labour government got in
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but other than that, I wouldn't trade in London. It just made it a no-go area
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You cannot even walk about with your telephone in your hand. You cannot wear a good watch
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women cannot walk about on their own daytime and evening time. I'm not sure why... That's not true, Charlie
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That's absolutely not true. Let me finish. Don't be rude. What I'm saying
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is that people like yourself are oblivious to what's going on in London
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I mean, I've got all these people coming on to me saying, you keep knocking London, Charlie
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I'm not knocking London. I'm being truthful about it. It's a dangerous city
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OK, Charlie. Let's bring in Aisha, because Aisha, he's got a point
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hasn't he? Because street crime in London is very high. Murder might be low as an average when you
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compare it to US cities. We do have a problem with theft, with shoplifting and, you know
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that low level criminality that does blight London as a global city
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I'm going to refer back to what I just said literally a few minutes ago. First of all
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Charlie, I'm actually a teacher and I'm not an actress. London has seen an issue around
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people stealing phones and so on. But that's not directly because of Sadiq Khan
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This is because we just don't have enough police officers on the beat. We don't have enough numbers to go around to patrol the streets
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and so on like we used to before. Also, when somebody reports a theft, what happens
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Nothing. There's no follow-up. Because, again, the police are absolutely snowed under
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with lots of other crimes. So, I mean, look, I understand what you've said, Charlie
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about people visiting and so on. you can't drive and so on
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But these are to make these ULIS charges and so on rules
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to make London safer in terms of our breathing, the air quality and reducing illnesses like asthma and so on
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So there's always going to be give and take. But London is, I mean, it's one of the centres
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financial centres of the world. People are investing, people are coming, people are visiting
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people are, you know, spending money. So it's wrong to say that London is a no-go area
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When I went, literally a few weeks ago, I walked around on my own, Charlie. I didn't have a bodyguard with me
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I didn't have any other people with me. I was on my own. I walked all over London on my own during the day and at night time and nothing happened to me And there so many other people Just go online Charlie Please don interrupt Please don interrupt
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Don't be rude. Thank you. So many people visit London. You just need to go online
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And all of them have had a great experience. So this idea, this myth that London is a no-go zone
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it's like the Bronx, people are being shot, people are being stabbed, it's just not true
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And it's actually talking down London. It's talking people out of visiting London
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Let's let Charlie have a word in there. I mean, Ayesha has a point, doesn't she
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in that Sadiq Khan did win just 18 months ago. It was a historic third-term victory
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If he's so dreadful and he's ruining London, why do people keep voting for him? Well, I think he's got a situation now
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where he's sort of got the type of voters that Labour want with them. You know, they don't want anybody to get on
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They want a socialist society. London's become a lawlessness society. You've got looting going on
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You've got crime going on. And he's the one that's running the police
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And your saying is that we don't have enough police on the ground, which is correct. But if a crime gets committed in London now
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police are not going to come out. It's become lawlessness city. And you're laughing and smiling
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but you say you went out there the other day, but you don't live there. I've lived in there for probably 60 years, right
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And it's changed and changed all the time. And unfortunately, I'm still a resident in the UK
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So all the busybodies on here saying to me, you shouldn't have an opinion. Charlie Mullins
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why do you think so many Americans are now seeking citizenship in Britain
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And why are they coming to London? If you think it's so dreadful, and Donald Trump thinks it's so
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awful, why are they all relocating to London? I live in London. I think it's a great city
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And I agree with Sadiq Khan that it has problems it needs to fix about street
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crime and all the rest of it. But it's still one of the
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greatest cities on earth, and lots of Americans clearly want to move here. Absolutely. Well, I mean, you say it's one of the greatest cities in the world
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I mean, the crime rate's gone up, the stabbings have gone up, you've got looting going on, you've got sexual attacks going on
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and I've got people like you telling me it's a great city. Well, if it's a great city, you lot live there
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I mean... I do, I just told you I do live here, Charlie. Sorry, goodness me. But you're running away with it
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You said, why do Americans go there? I believe they're going there now, or they're buying property
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because of the drop in property prices. But I'll ask you the question
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Why are millions of Brits leaving for Dubai Spain Monaco and various other places Why are they leaving then if it such a great place Well I think people are leaving Britain for loads of reasons Tax cost of living all the rest of it But London is still thriving London Charlie Martin yeah obviously
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Otherwise, it would be empty. It's not. It's still thriving. I'll tell you what, for a newsreader, you're just talking rubbish
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You're absolutely rubbish. London is thriving. Are you having a laugh? I think we should take..
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No, no. I live here. Charlie, calm down. You've got all the homeless people on the streets
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You've got all the high streets shut. You've got people scared to go out at night, and businesses can't hardly survive
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I think Charlie Mullins... Charlie, I'm going to stand up for you here. It feels like everyone's ganging up on you
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I think Charlie Mullins has the right point here, that doing business in London, trying to trade in London
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is really, really difficult because of all those traffic restrictions that Sadiq Khan has brought in
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There are LTNs. It's impossible to get around London because of you, Les
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We're trying to renovate a house at the moment, just getting people able to park outside our house
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decorators, plumbers, et cetera, to park outside our house is almost impossible
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Don't you think Sadiq Khan has gone a little bit far with some of these green moves
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which have basically brought London to a standstill? Exactly. You've got LTNs all over
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That was for Ayesha, Ayesha. You have all these rules. Like, we have you, Les, and so on coming into Bradford soon
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We've got the same kind of rules in Birmingham, in Manchester, and so on
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But just one thing, Charlie, I wanted to point out. There's actually more crime happening in Manchester
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but nobody's talking about Andy Burnham. Nobody's mentioning Andy Burnham and not talking about
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how he's doing a bad job and so on. So it's really funny that everybody seems to be picking on Sadiq Khan
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And you've left England. You don't even pay enough tax. You talk about homelessness, you talk about vulnerable people
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you talk about people that need support, but you don't even pay tax anymore in England
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You've literally removed yourself. I've got no tax to pay lately. You're living in Spain right now. Why would I pay tax if I pay people
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If you really cared about making a difference, Charlie, you would be here, you would be trying to make everything better
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and you'd be contributing your fair share as well. No, not at all. So you can't sit in sunny Spain or wherever you are, Dubai, whatever
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and complain about a country that you don't even contribute and you don't even live in
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And please don't interrupt. That's rude. All right, you two. I'm not prepared to put any more money into the UK
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for people that are... So stop talking about the UK then. Stop talking about Sadiq Khan
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Stop talking about Lyndon. Right, businessman Charlie Mullins and political commentator, not actress, Ayesha Ali Khan
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I'll let you two continue this on a Zoom link elsewhere, I think, but we have to wrap it up here
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Thank you very much for your..
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