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British Lawmakers Debate Banning “Dangerous Fool” Donald Trump

HeadlineJan 19, 2016

British lawmakers held a three-hour debate Monday on the possibility of banning Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from entering the country. More than 570,000 people signed a petition in favor of the ban—more than any other petition submitted to the current Parliament—after Trump called for banning Muslims from entering the United States. Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, who is Muslim, was among those to criticize Trump.

Tulip Siddiq: “I don’t want him in my country. He clearly doesn’t want me in his country, for no good reason. And that’s why I don’t think we should be allowing Donald Trump to come into our country and spread some of his poisonous rhetoric.”

While they condemned Trump as a “buffoon” and a “dangerous fool,” British lawmakers do not actually have the power to ban him from the country.

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