Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday told British lawmakers that US President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban was “divisive and wrong”, five days after she initially refused to condemn the move.
“On the policy that President Trump has introduced, this government is clear that that policy is wrong”, May told MPs after being pressed by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn in parliament.
“We believe it is divisive and wrong,” she said, speaking to MPs for the first time since the travel ban came into force.
Trump’s executive order bars refugee arrivals for at least 120 days and suspends visas from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — for 90 days.
The prime minister was keen to emphasise she had no advance notice of Trump’s plans.
“If he (Corbyn) is asking me whether I had…
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