On Wednesday, UK PM Theresa May shut down opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for asking her to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK saying, “He can lead a protest, I'm leading a country.”
On Wednesday, British PM Theresa May shut down opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for asking her to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK saying, “He can lead a protest, I'm leading a country.”
Corbyn had said that the US president Trump had ‘torn up’ international agreements on refugees, praised the use of torture, ‘incited hatred’ against Muslims and ‘attacked’ women’s rights. He asked Theresa May to listen to 1.8 million petitioners who want his state visit withdrawn.
Theresa May however hit back by pointing out what she had achieved after visiting Trump. She said: “I was able to build on the relationship we have with our most important ally and to get some very significant commitments from President Trump and crucial among these was a 100% commitment to NATO, NATO which keeps us safe and which keeps Europe safe too.”
Meanwhile, speaking about the ban, she said: "This government is clear that that policy is wrong. We wouldn't do it, in six years as Home Secretary I never introduced such a policy, we believe it is divisive and wrong. If he's asking me whether I had advanced notice of the ban on refugees, if he's asking me if I had advanced notice of whether the order could affect British citizens, the answer is no, if he's asking if I had advanced notice of travel restrictions, the answer is we all did because President Trump said he would do this in his election campaign. The job of government is not to chase headlines, the job of government is not to take to the streets in protest, the job of government is to protect the interests of British citizens and that's what we did."
When Corbyn used his sixth question, to hit out Trump further and asked: “He’s praised the use of torture; he’s incited hatred against Muslims; he’s directly attacked women’s rights. What more does President Trump have to do before the PM will listen to the 1.8m people who have already called for his state visit invitation to be withdrawn?”
To this, Theresa May responded: “The Right Honourable Gentleman's foreign policy is to object to and insult the democratically elected head of state of our most important ally. Let's just see what he would have achieved...would he have been able to protect British citizens from the impact of the executive order? No! Would he have been able to lay the foundation of the trade deal? No! Would he have got a 100% commitment to NATO? No! He can lead a protest, I'm leading a country."
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