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‘I’d treat Trump to a visit to Brixton’
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US BILLIONAIRE bigot Donald Trump should not banned from Britain but instead be forced to visit Brixton, Labour MP Paul Flynn suggested yesterday.

With 574,000 signatures, a petition to have the racist presidential hopeful excluded from the country won more than five times the support needed to trigger a debate in Parliament and is currently the most popular official e-petition.

Mr Flynn presented the petition, sparked by Mr Trump’s call for all Muslims to be banned from the US, in a three-hour Westminster Hall debate.

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