Parliamentary consideration will occur in response to an online petition submitted to the Parliament's page last month calling for Trump's prohibition from the country.
"If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the 'unacceptable
behaviour' criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be
fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as
powerful," the petition reads.
The petition has garnered almost 600,000 signatures, well past the
10,000 signature threshold to elicit a response and the 100,000
threshold to trigger parliamentary debate.
The petition first appeared after Trump called for a pause to Muslim immigration in the United States in December. At the time, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called Trump's proposal “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong."
Nonetheless, it was not initially clear that Parliament would actually
weigh in. "The government has a policy of not routinely commenting on
individual immigration or exclusion cases," the governing body said last month.
As in many things, Trump appears to be the exception to the routine.
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