Arrogant Boris Johnson claims BRITAIN persuaded Donald Trump to drop child-caging policy
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- 26 Jun 2021
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Arrogant Boris Johnson has claimed Britain persuaded Donald Trump to drop his policy of caging child immigrants.
The UK Foreign Secretary was blasted today as he defended the US President, wouldn't cancel his visit - and insisted he IS "increasingly admiring" him.
Trump signed an order last week to stop distraught children of alleged illegal immigrants being taken from their families at the US border.
The new policy will simply lock up families together instead.
But instead of blasting Trump, Mr Johnson suggested the repeal was just another reason for Britain to be close to the US.
He told MPs: "The Prime Minister condemned [the policy] and she speaks for the government and for me.
"No sooner had she spoken than the President of the United States repealed the policy.
"Thus demonstrating, I venture to suggest, the considerable and growing influence of the UK."
Leaked recordings emerged earlier this month of Boris Johnson saying he was "increasingly admiring" of Trump and joking he should take over Brexit talks.
Despite the row over migrant children erupting since then, Mr Johnson stood by his claim.
He said he admired the way Trump responded to Syria's use of chemical weapons and his efforts to increase defence spending by Nato states.
And he rebuffed calls to cancel the President's planned visit to see the Prime Minister and the Queen at Chequers and Windsor Castle on July 13.
But Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said: "The Foreign Secretary clearly has a new hero and we know who he is - the clue is in the hair.
"Even he knows surely in the depths 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."
Ms Thornberry suggested Trump was unfit to visit as another MP said Mr Johnson should tell the President: "You're fired".
SNP MP Peter Grant added: "This is somebody who can only be described as a serial child abuser.
"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.
"How can this person be fit for a state visit?"
