Majority of Cabinet wanted Trump banned from addressing UK parliament

More than half the Cabinet have previously demanded Donald Trump be banned from the UK parliament, the Telegraph can reveal. Thirteen of the Cabinet’s 22 members signed parliamentary motions in Trump’s first term calling for him to be banned from addressing MPs during any state visit to Britain. In January 2017, days after Trump’s inauguration, twelve current Cabinet ministers put their names to an early day motion that “calls on the Speaker, Lord Speaker, Black Rod and Serjeant at Arms to withhold permission from the Government for an address to be made in Westminster Hall, or elsewhere in the Palace of Westminster, by President Trump”. The motion was signed by Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, the science secretary, Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, Ian Murray, the Scottish secretary, Jo Stevens, the Welsh secretary and Lucy Powell, the leader of the House of Commons. Additionally, 30 of the government’s 74 current junior ministers signed the EDM calling for Trump to be banned from addressing parliament.