During the US presidential election campaign, Khan was among many people who spoke out against Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, an idea he said would play into the hands of extremists.
Trump has criticised Khan, accusing the mayor of making a “pathetic excuse” over his statement urging Londoners not to be alarmed by the presence of additional police on the streets in response to an attack in June.
At the annual conference of his opposition Labour Party, Khan told an audience with GuardianLive that he thought having a state visit, which Prime Minister Theresa May has said is still planned, was “wrong”.
“I sometimes think people are ignorant,” he said, adding that it was his job to educate them.
Khan earlier said the police had thwarted seven attacks by militants since March this year, describing the increase in the number as a shift rather than a spike.
Speaking at the annual conference of his opposition Labour Party, Khan also said the police needed more spending to help them counter such attacks and that Internet companies must do more to crackdown on extremist content.
“Between March this year and now, there have been four attacks but seven have been thwarted,” he told a GuardianLive event. Earlier this month, the head of the city’s police force said six militant plots had been foiled over the last several months.
Meanwhile a poll of voters revealed Khan should be leader of the Labour Party if Jeremy Corbyn decided to step down,
The BMG poll also found a staggering 57% thought no high-profile Labour figure could fill Corbyn’s shoes.
Of the candidates picked out, most (12%) of the 1,500 sample thought the mayor of London was the best candidate for the job, while the second most popular figure was Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.
Just 3% thought the next Labour leader had to be a woman. The public were unconvinced anyone in the current Labour frontbench was leadership material, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell polling at 3% as the best candidate, along with shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who Unite boss Len McCluskey is thought to favour, was the choice of just 2%.
Despite Labour having never elected a female leader, a solid 79% thought experience was a more important factor than gender.
