London’s new Mayor Sadiq Khan has accused Prime Minister David Cameron and defeated Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith of maintaining a nasty, negative and divisive campaign during the recent mayoral elections. Khan says the conservatives set out to divide London’s ethnic communities by adopting Donald Trump style campaign tactics during an election that broke records, with a 45.6% turnout on Thursday. The Tories have defended their tactics. Chancellor Osborne called them a robust bit of “rough and tumble,” common in today’s politics and necessary for democracy. International Business Times reports: “They used fear and innuendo to try to turn different ethnic and religious groups against each other – something straight out of the Donald Trump playbook,” the Labour leader of London wrote in The Observer. “Londoners deserved better and I hope it’s something the Conservative party will never try to repeat,” he added. Over the course of the mayoral campaign, Khan was subjected to repeated attempts by his rivals to portray him as an Islamic militant and his judgement was called into question for sharing speaking platforms with alleged extremists. The approach drew strong criticisms from across the board, including from within the Tory camp. Former Conservative Party chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi [...]