Banning Donald Trump from the UK: Everything you need to know

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he doesn’t think he should banned, and instead invited him to visit a local mosque.

But Labour’s Tulip Siddiq claimed there had been a rise in hate crimes since Mr Trump’s comments and branded him a “corrosive and poisonous man”.

“His words are not amusing”.

Well-versed arguments for and against were voiced from all sides of the political spectrum.

Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, released a statement Monday saying that “it is absurd that valuable parliamentary time is being wasted debating a matter raised as part of the American presidential election”.

Siddiq pointed out that blogger Pam Geller had been banned from the U.K.in 2003 for her anti-Muslim views.

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”.

“Our best plan is not to give him that accolade of martyrdom in that way”.

MPs near-universally condemned Trump’s comments, echoing Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments that the developer’s statements were “stupid and wrong”.

The debate was sparked by an online petition signed my more than half-a-million people calling for his barring from British soil.

“By scheduling a debate on these petitions, the committee is not expressing a view on whether or not the government should exclude Donald Trump from the UK”, Helen Jones, the chair of the petitions committee, told the BBC earlier this month. The government has the power to deny entry to people with criminal convictions or those whose presence is considered not “conducive to the public good.” The power has been used against figures as diverse as boxer Mike Tyson, rapper Tyler the Creator, radical Muslim preachers and the late Christian fundamentalist Fred Phelps Sr.

Conservative Victoria Atkins labelled Mr Trump a “wazzock” as she spoke against a ban.

“He wants to ban all Muslims from the United States, I want to ban all Donald Trumps from Scotland”.

Alex Chalk of the governing Conservative Party argued that Trump’s behaviour was “buffoonery” which should be met with “the classic British response of ridicule”.

It was a Scottish journalist and activist, Suzanne Kelly, who created the anti-Trump petition in November.

Banning Donald Trump from the United Kingdom risks martyring him, MPs have heard amid warnings the USA presidential hopeful could ” fuel the flames of terrorism”.

“And I’m not sure that we should be starting now”.

There is a high level of distaste in London for Donald Trump, CBC’s Ellen Mauro reported Monday. That would fall on Home Secretary Theresa May.

“I would urge the alternative of inviting him here and I would be delighted if he could show where the so-called no-go areas are in this country, I’ve never been able to find one”, he said.