US Immigration Policy

Debate between Jess Phillips and Boris Johnson

Monday 30th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Boris Johnson]

As the hon. Gentleman may know, my putative opposite number has not been finally confirmed in office yet, but we have had abundant conversations with representatives of the Trump Administration about this policy.

[Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley) (Lab)]

I wonder whether the Foreign Secretary could comment on the blog that has just come up from Gary Gibbon at Channel 4, which states that the Prime Minister was

“told a US refugee ban was coming”

prior to the signing of the Executive order. Can the Foreign Secretary confirm or deny that fact?

[Boris Johnson]

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.