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UK Parliament Doesn't Want President Trump To Address Chamber

Speaker John Bercow of the House of Commons said he is “strongly opposed” to President Trump speaking in Parliament during his upcoming state visit to the UK. “I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons,” said Bercow.

A petition to withdraw the invitation, posted on the U.K. government’s official petitions site, received nearly 2 million signatures.

Only seven U.S. presidents have ever spoken before the full Parliament, beginning with President Harry Truman in 1947. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

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