My University of Birmingham colleague Adam Quinn was asked by London’s Talk Radio on Monday if British Prime Minister Theresa May can — or will — do anything to challenge Donald Trump’s ban on citizens of seven mainly-Muslim countries entering the US.
He puts the answer by noting May’s deference to Trump during her visit to Washington last week, and her “going quiet on a variety of things he’s said and done which she and the world don’t approve of” — including the entry ban and detentions of hundreds of travellers. The he summarizes:
Britain is a good friend of the United States. When it speaks, it gets listened to, to some extent. But this is driven by much deeper forces within American politics, and Donald Trump will be unlikely to change course….
It is unreasonable to suggest we have control of what Donald Trump does, we can only respond and react to it.
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