The left has to choose between its commitment to gay rights and to Islam. And it’s choosing. It just refuses to admit it.

But the numbers speak for themselves.

London is known as a bastion of liberal values. But by some measures the capital city is less progressive than you might think. Findings from the British Social Attitudes survey found that residents were the least likely to say that pre-marital sex and homosexuality were rarely or never wrong.

What could possibly account for that?

The trend is despite London having the largest proportion of gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the country.

But it has even more Muslims.

Researchers said the regional variations were down to “religious differences” between different areas of the country and Londoners’ social conservatism was “largely driven by religious factors”.

“Controlling for religion, a factor significantly correlated with views towards pre-marital sex, differences between London and other regions became statistically non-significant,” the paper said.

It must be all those Anglicans.

It has the highest proportion of Muslims, at 12.4 per cent, compared to 4.8 per cent across England and Wales, and the lowest proportion of Christians, with less than half of people following Christianity.

The left has chosen. And despite bullying cakemakers and elderly florists, it chose to sell out its gay rights base to Islam. In the countries and cities where the left rules, love won’t ‘win’, gay marriage won’t remain legal for long. Instead Islam will win.