It depends on what the meaning of cloning is.
Truth is, they are the first to have legalized it.
Last week, the British health secretary announced that the Labour party will offer legislation to ban cloning. But there's one catch. What Britain would ban is so-called reproductive cloning, in which a cloned embryo gets implanted into a woman's womb. In other words, cloning is okay so long as no one survives. But the fakery could have serious implications worldwide.