- Jacqui Smith, “After the abuse, how should ministers treat Trump?”,
Total Politics, 14 November 2016,
https://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/opinion/jacqui-smith-after-abuse-
how-should-ministers-treat-trump:
following Trump’s comments on banning Muslims from entering the
US, the House of Commons held a debate on whether he should, in turn,
be banned from entering the UK. [...] There was no support for Trump’s
views although MPs took different positions on whether he should be
banned. [...] It is, of course, for the Home Office not Parliament to
determine whether [he] can be barred from entering the UK using
provisions that I strengthened as Home Secretary. In responding to the
petition, then Home Secretary Theresa May stopped short of a ban, but
said that she found Trump’s remarks ‘divisive, unhelpful and wrong’.
Instead of banning Donald Trump from Britain, the Quisling
politicians settled for hurling personal abuse at the future President of the
United States. ↵
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