January 20, 2016   World, Americas, Europe

Trump’s words are ‘poisonous’

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Monday.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Monday.

Donald Trump doesn’t have many fans in Britain’s Parliament.

But a debate among lawmakers on calls to ban Trump from the country revealed little appetite to close Britain’s doors to the provocative Republican US presidential contender.

During a three-hour debate, legislators from Britain’s main parties stood to call Trump an attention-seeker, a demagogue and a fool. Many, though, argued that he should not be stifled or banned.

Labour lawmaker, Tulip Siddiq, supported a ban.

“This is a man who is extremely high-profile, … a man who is interviewing for the most important job in the world,” she said. “His words are not comical, his words are not funny. His words are poisonous.”

Labour Party legislator Paul Flynn, who opened the session, said Trump had already received “far too much attention.”

“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.

Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat said, “While I think this man is crazy, while I think this man has no valid points to make, I will not be the one to silence his voice.”

Parliament took up the topic after half a million people signed a petition calling for Trump to be excluded over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US in the wake of extremist violence.

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