Sadiq Khan to anti-Trump Americans: ‘London is open’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said his city is open for U.S. workers looking to flee a Donald Trump presidency.

Mr. Khan made the comments Wednesday alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai as the tech giant announced plans for a new U.K. headquarters, The Hill reported.

The mayor said that one of the “most Googled things” since Mr. Trump’s stunning Election Day victory was the question, “How do you emigrate?”

“If talented people based in the U.S. want to come here to London, my message is simple — London is open,” Mr. Khan said, The Evening Standard reported.

“And our website’s not going to crash,” he added, apparently referring to the Canadian immigration website, which notoriously crashed as the results starting coming in on Election Day.

Mr. Pichai said during the press event that it was “challenging time” in the U.S.

“It’s a robust and challenging democratic process. But it’s important that we now have a smooth transition,” he said.

“We’ve had a deeply divided election, but we now hopefully can move beyond the rhetoric of the campaign to actually getting things done,” he said. “And so I remain optimistic we will go through this transition well, but it’s been a challenging time and it definitely weighs on all our minds.”

Mr. Pichai announced Google’s plan to open a new headquarters building in London, which could see 3,000 new jobs created by 2020, BBC reported.

He told BBC that open borders for skilled migrants were “absolutely” important for the tech industry’s success in the U.K.