The speaker of the House of Commons has indicated that President Trump may not be welcome to address the British Parliament during an anticipated state visit later this year. John Bercow signaled his resistance to having the American president address the lower chamber in remarks to members of Parliament Monday, according to USA Today:
The same sort of moral grandstanding was not evident when the House of Commons invited China’s Premier Xi Jinping to address MPs in October, 2015. Xi delivered his address despite the fact that one year before the British government listed China as a “country of concern” over its human rights abuses.
The report detailed numerous human and civil rights abuses inflicted on the Chinese people by the Communist regime in Beijing, but Xi was welcomed with all the pomp and circumstance the House of Commons could muster.
