“If other people have been stopped from coming into the country the same rules need to apply to Donald Trump”.
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That is the question to be discussed on Monday by the Petitions Committee of the House of Commons, where lawmakers are obliged to debate the issue after more than 573,000 Britons signed an online petition this fall.
He argued that if the Government did ban the presidential hopeful then “it would only play into Mr Trump’s hands”.
Last month, Trump provoked controversy with his comments that Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, after 14 people died in a shooting spree in California by two Muslims, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation said had been radicalised.
Similar to American law, British law requires Parliament to put any topic to a debate if the petition reaches 100,000 signatures.
Citing the fact that almost 600,000 people signed the petition, she called Trump “a poisonous, corrosive man” whose words “risk inflaming tension between vulnerable communities”.
British Parliament members (MPs) debated Monday whether Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump should be barred from entering the country over controversial comments he made about Muslims.
But he and other senior officials have said they do not think Trump should be banned.
Trump has been a frontrunner in the race to become the Republican Party’s candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
“Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump need Isis”, said Dromey in his speech in favor of the ban, as reported by The Guardian.
Another Tory MP, Paul Scully, said people have ben excluded for hated and violence “but I’ve never heard of one for stupidity”.
“This is a man who is extremely high-profile, … a man who is interviewing for the most important job in the world”, she said. His words are not comical, his words are not amusing.
The Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) has submitted a formal request to the Home Secretary to ban Mr Trump from entering the United Kingdom on the grounds of his “unacceptable behaviours”.
Could Donald Trump be persona non grata on the soil of one of America’s closest and strongest allies?
Labour MP Paul Flynn said that the “great danger” in attacking Trump was that “we can fix on him a halo of victimhood”. Corbyn said it would be better to engage with Trump than ban him, whilst Cameron described his comments about Muslims as “divisive, stupid and wrong”.
“Until now, Turnberry has been unable to attract the huge investment required to secure its future and industry chiefs have applauded Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, which has attracted tens of thousands of much-needed overseas visitors to the region”.
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She said she would invite Trump to her constituency and take him to mosques, synagogues and churches.
