British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sees no reason to cancel Donald Trump's state visit to Britain after the US president criticised Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to the London Bridge killings.
Prime Minister Theresa May called Trump's comments "wrong."
Trump has lambasted Khan on Twitter, accusing him of making a "pathetic excuse", for saying Londoners should not be alarmed by the sight of additional police on the streets of the British capital after Saturday's attack that killed seven people.
"The invitation has been issued and accepted and I see no reason to change that, but as far as what Sadiq Khan has said about the reassurances he's offered the people of London, I think he was entirely right to speak in the way he did," Johnson said in a BBC radio interview on Tuesday.
No date has been set for the visit.
May has said Khan is doing a good job, echoing public sentiment across London.
On Tuesday, the Conservative prime minister told a political rally in response to a question about Trump's tweets, "I think Donald Trump was wrong in the things that he has said about Sadiq Khan."
Trump and Khan, the son of Pakistani immigrants and the first Muslim elected as London's mayor, have been at odds since Khan denounced as "ignorant" Trump's campaign pledge to impose a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Asked during a TV interview on Monday evening if he would like Trump's visit to be called off, Khan, a member of Britain's opposition Labour party, said his position remained the same.
"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," Khan told Channel 4 News.
Tim Farron, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, called on May on Monday to cancel the state visit, saying Trump was insulting Britain's values "at a time of introspection and mourning".
Former Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, defeated by Trump last November, praised Khan's performance in dealing with the attacks.
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