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    Tuesday, January 31, 2017

    Britain, with over a million petition signatures against the visit of Trump


    British Prime Minister Theresa May announced during her visit to the US president Donald Trump had accepted the invitation to visit London, but from that moment until now, given the executive order of the head of the White House to ban refugees and immigrants from 7 countries with a Muslim majority, "Downing Street" has faced calls to cancel the visit considered a "populist gesture".

    Although the British government has refused to do something like that, a petition that seeks to ban the visit of President Trump in the UK has collected over a million signatures. The number of signatories has grown more particularly after the global irritable, but protests in America, due to recent actions Trumpi, which entered into force by the weekend.

    Laburisti Jeremy Corbyn, in turn, asked the prime minister to postpone the visit.

    Graham Guest, a lawyer from Leeds and initiator of the petition, said he wanted this initiative to put the spotlight Trump. On Sunday, he told news agency "Press Association" that "would legitimize the state visit of his presidency, and as he would use the opportunity to take pictures and to display next to the Queen, he would aim to re-elected ".

    Friday, Trump signed an executive order prohibiting US refugee program for 120 days, and indefinitely banned the entry of all Syrians, and suspended the entry of all citizens from 7 countries with a Muslim majority. Efforts to implement this move caused irritation and protests around the world.

    On Saturday afternoon, the petition had only 60 firms, but immediately came to 100 thousand such, as far as is necessary to consider a debate in Parliament, just after noon Sunday. For this reason, the British parliamentarians will debate on Tuesday.

    The protest in response to the executive order Trump expected to take place this Monday afternoon in London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Swansea.

    However, for the moment, "Buckingham Palace" refuses to comment on this issue. Sources from "Downing Street" told the BBC that the invitation was "done and accepted", while its withdrawal "would undo everything" after the visit of Prime Minister May in the US.

    "America is a great ally and important. We should think having a telescopic sight, "added the source said. However, no date has been set yet for the Trump state visit to Britain.

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