Yahoo News Boris Johnson defends Donald Trump's visit to the UK as he explains his 'admiration' of the US President
Boris Johnson has come under fire from MPs for speaking about his admiration for Donald Trump.
The Foreign Secretary was asked to justify a comment he is said to have made at a private dinner about how he is “increasingly admiring” of Mr Trump.
During Foreign Office questions, Mr Johnson was asked by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry to name three things he admired about the US President.
His response cited the way Mr Trump had responded to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, his relationship with North Korea and his effort to force Nato to spend more on defence.
But MPs criticised Mr Johnson’s support of the US President and urged him to cancel Mr Trump’s planning visit to the UK next month after the row over his administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy towards illegal immigrants which saw children separated from their parents.
In response to my question this morning, Boris Johnson cannot bring himself to personally condemn Trump's policy of seperating children from their parents and putting them in cages. Instead he palms it off to the PM. He's just a disgrace of a Foreign Secretary
— Drew Hendry MP (@drewhendrySNP) June 26, 2018
SNP MP Peter Grant said: “Isn’t it time for the Government to seriously question whether the United States’ present President is a fit and proper person to be our greatest ally?
“This is somebody who can only be described as a serial child abuser.
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“Putting children into concentration camps is not acceptable. He has not yet taken them out of these camps, he’s holding them hostage to force their parents to give up their claims to asylum.
“He’s also tried to abolish due process. How can this person be fit for a state visit?”
Mr Johnson responded that the president had since repealed the policy, adding: “He remains the head of state of our most important economic, military and security ally.”
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry later said: “Even he knows, in the depth of his soul, that when we have a president like Donald Trump who bans Muslims and supports Nazis, who stokes conflict and fuels climate change, who abuses women and cages children, that is not a record to be admired, that is a record to be abhorred.
“I simply ask the Foreign Secretary, not just why he joked that a man like that should be in charge of our Brexit negotiations, but why he thinks seriously that a man like that should have the honour, in two weeks’ time, of visiting Chequers, Blenheim Palace and Windsor Castle and shaking hands with Her Majesty the Queen?”
Boris Johnson praises Donald Trump as he defends President’s controversial UK visit
Boris was being questioned by MPs. Was asked why he said he was ‘increasingly admiring’ of Trump.
Praised his handling as Assad chemical weapons use, North Korea and Nato See 11.51 here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/jun/26/brexit-uncertainty-has-already-hit-investment-in-car-industry-manufacturers-say-politics-live
Swerved questions about separating families at the border
https://twitter.com/drewhendrySNP/status/1011562666186375168Also defended saying ‘fuck business’
