If British lawmakers bar Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from entering their country, the billionaire’s business conglomerate is prepared to end all current and future investments in the United Kingdom.
In a statement to Fox News, the Trump Organization’s executive vice president, George Sorial, said banning Trump from visiting the U.K. “would create a dangerous precedent and send a terrible message to the world that the United Kingdom opposes free speech.”
Sorial also claimed the move would “alienate the many millions of United States citizens who wholeheartedly support Mr. Trump and have made him the forerunner by far in the 2016 presidential election.”
The decision to block Trump from entering the U.K. will be debated by members of Parliament on Jan. 18, less than to months after a petition calling for such action attracted more than 560,000 signatures shortly after it was posted to the British government’s website.
While Parliament has agreed to consider the ban, Helen Jones, chairwoman of the parliamentary petitions committee, said Tuesday that “as with any decision to schedule a petition for debate, it simply means that the committee has decided that the subject should be debated.” Jones noted the debate would not end with a binding vote on the matter.
Still, Sorial said any action taken to against his boss “would force the Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom.”
Trump’s company currently manages a golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, but has not disclosed whether it has other pending investments in the U.K. Trump himself has yet to comment on the efforts to block him from entry.
