During the debate, which had been triggered by a huge petition, Labour MP Rupa Huq asked fellow Labour MP Tulip Siddiq whether she was aware that Trump was racist, homophobic, and misogynistic.
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Another Labour MP who supported a ban was Jack Dromey, a shadow Home Office minister, who said Trump could push vulnerable young people further into extremism. His words are not comical, his words are not amusing.
Trump International Golf Links in Scotland said in a statement: “It is absurd that valuable parliamentary time is being wasted debating a matter raised as part of the American presidential election”.
The petition cites Trump’s controversial views on Muslims and immigration, calling it “hate speech”.
The MP reminded her colleagues that Trump “ran a dog-whistle campaign against Barack Obama’s birth certificate to find out whether the president of America was really American”. Members of Parliament also could consider a petition not to ban Trump, although that appeal drew just over 43,000 signatures.
Banning billionaire Donald Trump from Britain would “fix on him a halo of victimhood”, MPs heard today.
Another Conservative MP, Philip Davies, said more politicians should be like Mr Trump.
He sparked fierce controversy last month when he called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on”.
The petition is titled: “Block Donald J Trump from United Kingdom entry” and says Britain has banned many individuals for hate speech in the past and that the same criteria “must be fairly applied to the rich as well as the poor, and the weak as well as powerful”.
The British government responds to all petitions that gain more than 10,000 signatures and topics are considered for parliamentary debate if they reach 100,000. Labour legislator Naz Shah was one of several lawmakers who invited Trump to visit their constituencies to see Britains multiethnic society first-hand.
There is a high level of distaste in London for Donald Trump, CBC’s Ellen Mauro reported Monday. But Tasmina Ahmed-Sheik of the Scottish National Party argued that Trump is best addressed “not with a ban but with the great British response of ridicule”.
“I happen to disagree with Donald Trump’s view, but whatever people think surely he should be entitled to have this opinion and to express it, and to give all of those people who have that view a voice in the political process”.
Monday’s debate is taking place in Westminster Hall, the Commons’ secondary debating chamber, rather than the main Commons chamber itself. “The Home Secretary has said that Donald Trump’s remarks in relation to Muslims are divisive, unhelpful and wrong”.
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Mr Flynn replied: “I would urge the alternative of inviting him here, and I’d be delighted if he could show us where the so-called no-go areas for police are”.
