UK lawmakers debate banning Donald Trump from Britain

“It’s in part because of political correctness that the straight talking of Donald Trump has proved so popular with the electorate out there”.

Trump is the frontrunner in the race to win the Republican nomination for the U.S. 2016 presidential election, and has suggested banning Muslims from entering the United States and labelled Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers.

“I don’t think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shore”, Jack Dromey, the Labour Party’s shadow home affairs minister, told the assembled MPs.

Donald Trump was branded a racist demagogue, a buffoon and a “wazzock” in the British parliament as MPs debated whether to ban the Republican presidential candidate from coming to the UK.

The lawmakers opted to debate Trump’s comments after a petition from British citizens passed 560,000 signatures, well above the 100,000 name threshold need for Parliament to consider the topic.

Monday’s debate won’t result in a vote.

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“His policy to close borders if he is elected as president is bonkers”.

But Kwazi Kwarteng, a historian and one of a relatively small number of black members of Parliament, argued that to focus on King and ignore Trump was to disregard the streak of nativism that has always run through American politics.

Dr Sarah Woollaston, a Conservative MP, said: “Just reflect on the consequences of your kind of religious bigotry, think again. Because if they exist they exist for that very reason and we have a responsibility for peace and security to ensure whoever comes in and out of our country is treated in the same way”.

“The great danger by attacking this one man is that we can fix on him a halo of victimhood” and boost his popularity among supporters, Flynn said.

The “best plan was not to give him the accolade of martyrdom and we may already be in error in giving him far too much attention”, he said.

Atkins remarked: “We are fueling this man’s publicity machine by having this debate at all today”.

Conservative MP Paul Scully attempted to inject some humour, saying: “Britain is pretty good at roasting beef”.

Both Prime Minister David Cameron and Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn have rejected the idea of a ban.

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, the SNP trade and investment spokeswoman, called for Mr Trump to be banned for making comments which “condemn a whole religion for the actions of a terrorist death cult [Islamic State]” and to direct his criticism elsewhere.

Trump drew worldwide outrage with his comments, which came after 14 people died in a shooting spree in California by two Muslims, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation said had been radicalized.