“London wants to go to Sharia law.”
President Trump, UN General Assembly, Sept 2025, and again in the Oval Office, March 2026.
Verdict: No evidence
Nobody has proposed it, and the councils that exist have no legal power.
Fact-checkers found nothing behind it. Sharia councils have existed in Britain since the 1980s, advising Muslims on religious marriage and divorce. A 2018 Home Office review set out what they are: bodies with no legal status and no binding authority over anybody. The government’s position runs to one sentence. Sharia law forms no part of the law of England and Wales.
Nobody at City Hall has ever proposed adopting it. The Mayor called the claim Islamophobic, and the Health Secretary said the Mayor is not trying to impose Sharia law on London. Six months later, sitting beside the German Chancellor, Trump went further: “You have Shariah courts adjudicating law.” Snopes rated that false too.
- Legal status
- none. 2018 Home Office review; “no part of the law of England and Wales”
- The claim
- made from a podium, twice, with nothing offered to back it
- Pattern
- a years-old conspiracy theory, brought back out
