This weekend a teenager was shot dead and another stabbed to death in London, following the fatal knifing of another man in on Friday

The pair have feuded online for years especially after Trump's Muslim travel ban

It comes after Trump said Khan was a 'national disgrace destroying London'

The Mayor said it was 'remarkable' the President was 'amplifying a racist tweet'

The Mayor of London today threatened to turn his long-running online feud with the US President into a full-blown diplomatic row when he called Donald Trump a 'poster boy for racists'.

Mr Trump had dubbed Sadiq Khan a 'disaster' on Twitter over the weekend and called him a 'national disgrace who is destroying the city of London'.

Tory leadership hopeful, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said he agreed with the President '150 per cent' while saying he would have used 'different words'.

The President's comments accompanied a retweet of a post by Katie Hopkins which called the capital 'Stab-City' and 'Khan's Londonistan' alongside two screenshots of BBC News articles detailing recent outbreaks of violent crime.

It comes after another weekend of violence in the capital as the murder toll for 2019 has hit 60 after a 43-year-old was stabbed to death in Stratford, East London - the fourth person to be killed in London this weekend alone.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan alleged this morning that Donald Trump was become an inspirational figure for racists the world over

He was the fourth person to be killed in London this weekend alone, after one teenager was shot dead and another was stabbed to death on Saturday, following the fatal knifing of another man in Tower Hamlets on Friday.

This morning's victim was attacked in Stratford, east London, just one day after a mob of 100 youths pelted police with bottles as they investigated a robbery at the nearby Westfield shopping centre.

Speaking in central London today Said Khan said Mr Trump should explain his tweets saying it was 'remarkable' that the President had been 'amplifying a racist tweet'.

He went on: 'That's one of my concerns about Donald Trump - he's now seen as a poster boy for racists around the world, whether you're a racist in this country, whether you're a racist in Hungary, a racist in Italy, or a racist in France.

'He's now a poster boy for the far-right movement and that should cause us huge concern.'

The London Mayor went on: 'It's for Donald Trump to answer the question why he's obsessed with me, it's for Donald Trump to answer the question why he amplifies the tweets of far-right activists, why he amplifies racist tweets.

'I'm quite clear, there are many cities across this country facing a huge issue of the increase in violent crime, they've been doing so since 2014.

'There are many good leaders in America facing massive increases in violent crime, they have my support to make sure we learn lessons from each other and that we work together to grapple the issue of violent crime taking place in many cities across the Western world.'

Officers are investigating the capital's 60th murder this year after a man was stabbed to death in Stratford this morning

Pictured: The locations in which the 60 victims of London's murder bloodbath have been attacked this year

Pictured: Police in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Saturday scour the scene following the fatal stabbing of an unnamed man

Later the Prime Minister's official spokesman has said Theresa May would not have retweeted Katy Hopkins' comments about 'Londonistan', as President Donald Trump has done.

He said: 'The Prime Minister would not retweet Katie Hopkins, nor use that language.

'The Prime Minister agrees with the Mayor that knife violence should have no place in London or anywhere else in our country.'

And shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said Trump 'may be singling out Sadiq Khan because he is of the Muslim faith.

Speaking in the Commons during an urgent question on violent crime in the capital, Ms Abbott branded Mr Trump's tweet in relation to the mayor of London 'distasteful'.

She said: 'In relation to the President of the United States implying that the Mayor of London is responsible for the rise in violent in crime, the mayor must be held to account like any other politician.

'But in 30 years in Parliament I've never heard a President of the US reference a London mayor at all. It's hard to escape the conclusion that President Trump may be singling out Sadiq Khan because he is of the Muslim faith. Does the minister accept that if that were true, many people would find it distasteful?'

The President continued his long-running feud with the London mayor this weekend

Mr Khan responded after the President retweeted content posted by Katie Hopkins about recent crimes in the capital city

US President Donald Trump said Sadia Khan was a 'disaster' and a 'national disgrace'

At a Tory leadership event today, Jeremy Hunt said he agrees '150%' with US President Donald Trump's assessment of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's record on tackling knife crime.

Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt intervened in the row during a Tory leadership hustings in Westminster, saying that the US president 'has his own style' and he 'would not use those words myself'.

'But the sentiment is enormous disappointment that we have a Mayor of London who has completely failed to tackle knife crime and has spent more time on politics than the actual business of making Londoners safer and in that I 150% agree with the president.'

After Mr Hunt's comments, fellow Tory leadership rival Home Secretary Sajid Javid said it was 'unbecoming' for a president to intervene in an ally's domestic politics.

He said: 'I think President Trump should stick to domestic policies and I think it is unbecoming of a leader of such a great state to keep trying to interfere in other countries' domestic policies.'

He added: 'The president is right to be concerned about serious violence but he should be concerned about the serious violence in his own country where it is more than 10 times higher than it is in the UK.'

Mr Trump inserted himself into the Tory leadership race at the start of June when he said gave his tacit endorsement to Boris Johnson.

The US President said he had 'always liked' the former mayor of London and described him as a 'very good guy'.

Mr Javid finished fifth in the first round of voting in the Tory leadership contest with just 23 votes while Mr Raab came in fourth with the support of 27 MPs.

Both will need to reach at least 33 votes when the second round of voting takes place tomorrow in order to stand a chance of remaining in the race.

Despite so-called interference from the President, as it stands, London's violent crime rate rate remains minuscule when compared with even the safer cities of the USA.

There were 132 murders in London last year, leaving the capital with a homicide rate of 1.5 per 100,000 residents.

The murder rate in St Louis is 64.9 per 100,000 residents, according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association Violent Crimes Survey, which is 43 times higher than London.

In Baltimore the murder rate is 51.1. In New Orleans it is 40.6 and in Detroit it is 39.7.

In Washington DC, home to Congress and the White House, the murder rate is 11 times higher than London.