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US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I completely agree with my hon. Friend. I would just point out that we are more likely, as a nation, to get a hearing on these vital issues if we treat our long-standing friends and partners with the respect that they deserve.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady’s constituents are, of course, perfectly at liberty to sign the petition and express their views. I have expressed my views about the measure, but I also think it would be a good thing for the visit to go ahead, because the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is the single most important geopolitical fact of the past 100 years, and we are going to keep that relationship going.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure that the mood of the Chamber of the House of Commons will be reflected in all discussions about how the visit is to go ahead, but we should bear in mind that he is the elected Head of State of our closest and most important ally, and there is absolutely no reason why he should not be accorded a state visit, and every reason why he should.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (Conservative, Centre-right): Certainly, if we got the Queen to have tea with the President of China, I do not see why she should not have tea with the President of America. As all our security for 70 years depended on the special relationship, and with regard to our prosperity and a future trade deal, was not the visit of the Prime Minister an absolute triumph? We are all thoroughly proud of her. Is not the first fruit of this special relationship the fact that the Foreign Secretary has ensured the rights of British citizens?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with my hon. Friend about the Prime Minister’s visit. I think it was a very great success, and the two evidently kindled an important relationship. The parallels that were drawn extensively in the US commentariat between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and our Prime Minister and the new American President were very apposite. We can look forward to a new era of security and stability, working together with the US.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Keith Robert Simpson (Conservative, Centre-right): May I offer the Foreign Secretary my commiserations on his being sent out to bat on a very sticky wicket? Will he tell the House whether, when he intervened in Washington, it was through the State Department or the President’s son-in-law?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that ingenious question. I am sure that the House will appreciate that we have very good relations with the US Government at all levels now. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has had an excellent conversation today with General Kelly of the Homeland Security Department, confirming the very important exemptions that we have achieved for UK nationals and dual nationals.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
James Gerald Douglas Howarth (Conservative, Centre-right): As recent barbaric attacks across Europe demonstrate, we all face a continuing threat from Islamic fundamentalism, which we are all trying to address in our different ways. Although we may not have adopted the same policy as the United States, surely this is a matter for the newly elected Administration in America, its courts and its people. Our position has been immensely enhanced by the fantastic visit by our right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Britain now has influence, thanks to her.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Desmond Angus Swayne (Conservative, Centre-right): Given the reservations that my right hon. Friend has expressed and the mitigation that he has secured, what further opportunities will there be to maximise our influence? May I suggest that a return visit by the President is a rather obvious one?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that very good thought. The presidential visit will, of course, be an occasion for deepening the relationship and having further such conversations. I will meet my US counterpart at the Munich security conference in just a few days’ time.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Ben Howlett (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend my right hon. Friend for his statement of condemnation. Is he aware of the speech in 1940 in which Winston Churchill said: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last", in reference to the countries that remained neutral in the war? The dangerous trend towards nationalism, which we have not seen since the 1930s, inflicting itself on the western world has wrongly been defined as populism. It is clear that this Executive order needs to be condemned. Does my right hon. Friend agree with me that the House must make its stand, here and now, for the weight of history stands on our shoulders?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The important point, I stress again to the House, is that the Government have earned the right to speak frankly to our friends in the US. We have done so, and we have made our views about this measure known. As the House has heard, my views are ad idem with the views of the hon. Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) and other Members here today. The Prime Minister does not approve of the measure, but the important thing to do is to talk to our friends and partners in the US—to reflect and relay some of the global consternation that we detect, but to get a positive outcome for UK nationals.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend puts it bluntly, but accurately. Whatever Members may think about this policy—there is a wide measure of agreement about the policy across the House—it is the prerogative of the President of the United States and the American Government to do this.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): With great respect, the hon. Gentleman must have failed to pay attention during the previous 15 answers I have given on exactly that point. We do not agree with the policy, but we are engaging with the United States to improve it.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (Conservative, Centre-right): I know the Foreign Secretary understands the fear that this Executive order has struck into the hearts of some of our British citizens, particularly as during the Obama Administration British citizens of Iranian extraction in my constituency had their bank accounts at UK banks closed, ostensibly because of US banking rules. May I urge the Foreign Secretary not to disengage from the USA, but to seek protections and assurances to ensure that the Executive order does not lead to further personal financial sanctions on British citizens originally from these seven countries?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I know that he was born in Yemen, and there must initially have been some anxiety in his mind about exactly how he would be treated were he to go to the US. I am happy to say that he will face no obstacle whatever because he is a UK passport holder; nor will any UK aid worker in Yemen, because that is what we have achieved.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
James Jacob Gilchrist Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): We did not need the Executive order to be signed to realise that this was President Trump’s policy. After all, it was an election pledge in an election he went on to win. Given that we knew, or should have known, that this was going to happen, did the Foreign Secretary raise the issue in his meeting with President Trump’s transition team or did the Prime Minister raise it when she met president Trump? We should have known about it, and we should have raised it.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The reality is that conversations between the new Administration and the UK Government have been going on for many months. I have to say that we became aware of the policy when it was enacted by the President on Friday evening, and since then we have worked very hard to secure the exemptions and protections that we now have.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): We already work very closely—hand in glove, cheek by jowl, locked at the hip—with our friends and partners in the EU on matters of common foreign and security policy, and by the way we will continue to do so once we have left the European Union.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): What I can say about the conversations we have had so far is that, where people have diplomatic or political reasons to travel, or if they are travelling because they are aid workers, there should be expeditious systems for ensuring that they get through fast. That also applies to some of the people who are resident in this country but do not have either dual or UK nationality.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
William James Quince (Conservative, Centre-right): The Foreign Secretary has touched on this point. Sixteen countries currently forbid admission to Israeli passport holders. What the US is doing is without question misguided and wrong, but does my right hon. Friend agree that we should be consistent in our condemnation?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I said in my answer to the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry), who speaks from the Front Bench, that we are aware of the problem with the Glaswegian vet and will do everything we can within our consular power to help her. The hon. Lady’s repetition of comparisons—they have been made all afternoon—between these events, the second world war and the holocaust trivialises the holocaust.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree very much with a lot of what the hon. Lady says, which is why the Prime Minister and I have taken the line we have on this measure. She speaks of hate crime and is absolutely right to do so. I do not want to see anything that stigmatises, entrenches divisions or causes communities to feel unwelcome, whether in this country or elsewhere. That is absolutely wrong. We take hate crime very seriously in this country. We can be proud of some of the achievements we have made in the past 10 to 20 years in cracking down on those who foment mistrust and division between our communities.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Robert Edward Jenrick (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister’s speech in Philadelphia was one of the best expositions I have heard in recent years of the importance of the Atlantic alliance. I urge all hon. Members who doubt that to read her speech and they will see why this is a relationship worth holding on to. Will my right hon. Friend, in considering these issues, recognise the warm response the Prime Minister received from Congressional leaders, and redouble our efforts to reach out to them across the aisle as wise counsel and friends of the United Kingdom in Washington?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I completely agree with my hon. Friend. There is a wide measure of agreement across the Atlantic on some of the essentials that unite us: the importance of NATO and our collective western defence; and the importance of promoting our values and our belief in freedom, democracy, the rule of law, equality and human rights. They are shared by many, many people in the Republican party on Capitol Hill. They also share our strong desire to develop our trading relations with a new, free trade deal, one of the great achievements of the Prime Minister’s visit.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (Conservative, Centre-right): When President Obama came over here during the EU referendum, he voiced his concern about what we were trying to do. We told him in no uncertain terms that it was none of his business—it was entirely ours. Friends should be able to speak to each other, but does my right hon. Friend agree that the American people have voted Donald Trump to be their President and it is their business how they defend their borders?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with my hon. Friend up to this point: it is also our duty, as many Members have said today, to make our views about this measure clear to the American President. We do not like it. We disapprove of it. We think it is divisive, discriminatory and wrong, as I have said repeatedly. As he rightly says, however, this is a sovereign Government of a friendly country and they have taken this decision by due process.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course, most countries in the middle east are exempt from these provisions, but we will work with the incoming Administration to address all the crises in the middle east, including those affecting the countries concerned.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander John Gervase Chalk (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on standing up for British nationals. It is right that we remain a close friend of the United States, but will my right hon. Friend also point out as a candid friend to the US Administration that we should steer clear of policies that could act inadvertently as a recruiting sergeant for Daesh?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): It is our duty to secure the best possible deal for citizens of the United Kingdom. What Canada does is a matter for Canada, and I have no knowledge of what deal the Canadians may or may not have secured. It is important for the House to understand that this is an Executive order that caught many Departments of the American Administration on the hop, as it were, and it has taken them some time to elaborate the policy that we now have.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Philip Andrew Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): Given that Donald Trump is the democratically elected President of our closest ally and our single biggest trading partner who is carrying out a promise that he made to the American people in their general presidential election, I commend the Foreign Secretary for standing firm on the state visit, which is absolutely in our national interest. After all, if pursuing policies that the UK Government did not agree with or pursuing policies in a ham-fisted manner barred any country from a state visit, no country would ever get a state visit.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. To the best of my knowledge, both Nicolae Ceausescu and Robert Mugabe have been entertained by Her Majesty the Queen, and I think most Members would concede that it is our duty and the right thing to do to make preparations now for receiving our friend, our partner, the leader of a long-established great democracy and our most important ally.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very aware of that particular problem, and I have already heard representations from Iraqi politicians. There are, as the hon. Gentleman will know, specific exemptions for those involved in politics or diplomacy, and I hope that their applications will be treated expeditiously by the US.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
David Nuttall (Conservative, Centre-right): Does my right hon. Friend agree that while we can of course say that we would not have such a policy in the UK, interfering in the affairs of another country can be counter-productive, as President Obama found out when he tried to influence the outcome of the EU referendum last year?
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): That is entirely right. As things turned out, I was rather grateful for President Obama’s intervention. If I may say so to the House, I think we have got the balance just about right. It is very difficult, and we have had to be clear with our American friends and partners, but we have also had to secure important protections for duals and for UK citizens.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has made the point very elegantly. We do not agree with this policy, we do not support it, it is not something that we would do ourselves, but we think that the best way to effect change and influence the White House is to engage, and to be as positive as we possibly can.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: Foreign Trade
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the conclusion that anybody looking at the President’s electoral rhetoric and what he is in fact doing will draw is that his bark is considerably worse than his bite. I think we have every opportunity to do a very good deal with him on all sorts of things, not least free trade.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand the phenomenon to which the hon. Gentleman alludes, and we all need to work harder, and to work with our American friends and partners, to tackle that sense of exclusion and isolation which can drive extremism.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Irrespective of the psychological traits of various world leaders, in which I am sure the hon. Lady is an expert—I have not had a chance to consult her register of interests to discover whether she is indeed a psychologist—we will work with the President, and indeed with all our friends and partners, to get the best outcome for our country. The partnership with the US is absolutely vital, not just for our stability and security but for that of the entire world.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not comment on confidential conversations between the Prime Minister and the US President, but I can tell the House that as soon as we had a full understanding of the measure that the US had brought in, we decided to intercede to get the protections that we needed.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Lady for what she is doing with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. It is important that we talk to our friends and partners in NATO about the vital importance of that organisation. She is right to suggest that we have many friends on Capitol Hill who agree profoundly about the importance of NATO—as, indeed, do many in the new Trump Administration—but the way to nail down those arguments is to engage with that Administration in the way we are doing.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I will turn the hon. Gentleman’s entire proposition on its head: I think that other countries around the world are looking to us to engage with the new American Administration in order to reflect their concerns and to get across our key messages on NATO, on trade and on the values that unite us.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): A ministerial colleague makes from a sedentary position the important point that the leadership of the Labour party is currently in the hands of somebody who advocated talking to the IRA not so many years ago, and possibly still does. We are advocating engagement with the Government of the most powerful nation on earth, on which the security of the world depends.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Everybody understands the scope and extent of the challenge that we face from radical Islamic extremism. I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point about the danger of pushing people into a corner and making them feel more isolated. He is quite right to raise that. However, we are working with a huge coalition of Muslim countries, many of which are completely unaffected by this measure, to defeat that extremism and radicalisation.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that I gave an answer a moment or two ago. I do not comment on the confidential conversations that take place between the Prime Minister and her opposite number. We have worked with our friends in the White House, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to understand exactly how the measure is to be implemented and to ensure that we secure the protections that this country needs.
US Immigration Policy — House of Commons, 2017-01-30
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand the feelings of many people in this country and around the world. They have expressed themselves. I have seen the numbers on the petition. I will repeat my point to the House: it is our job as a sensible Government to work with the most powerful democracy in the world, the leadership of which is absolutely indispensable for our security and for the stability of NATO and the western alliance. That is what we are going to do. Just as every other President before him who has come to the UK, it is entirely right that Donald Trump should receive a state visit.