Don’t make Donald Trump a martyr urges MP Paul Flynn

Banning Donald Trump from the UK would allow the US presidential hopeful to be portrayed as a martyr, an MP has warned.

Labour’s Paul Flynn insisted the “great danger” of attacking the billionaire businessman is it could “fix on him a halo of victimhood” and boost the cause of his supporters.

The Newport West MP added it would also be a “grave error” for the debate to fuel suspicions that the British parliament was acting in an anti-American way.