The United Kingdom Parliament is set to debate barring Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from entry. The debate, which will be live-streamed, is scheduled to take place on Jan. 18.
Parliamentary consideration will occur in response to an online petition submitted to the Parliament's page last month calling for Trump's prohibition from the country.
"If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the 'unacceptable behaviour' criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as powerful," the petition reads.
The petition first appeared after Trump called for a pause to Muslim immigration in the United States in December. At the time, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called Trump's proposal “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong."
Nonetheless, it was not initially clear that Parliament would actually weigh in. "The government has a policy of not routinely commenting on individual immigration or exclusion cases," the governing body said last month.
As in many things, Trump appears to be the exception to the routine.
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