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London Mayor Sadiq Khan
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has told the organisers of an arms fair in the capital next month to reconsider the event and not come back, newly seen letters reveal.
The Labour mayor said that the arms fair’s presence is insulting to people who had escaped violence and made London their home.
“For [London] to be used as a marketplace for those who wish to trade in weapons to some countries that contribute to human rights abuses goes completely against our values,” Mr Khan said in one letter seen by the Independent newspaper.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
