Tens of thousands join marches across UK against Trump's travel ban

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/04/tens-of-thousands-in-new-march-against-trumps-travel-ban
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Tens of thousands of protesters have taken part in marches across the country condemning Theresa May’s state visit invitation to Donald Trump. Demonstrators urged the prime minister to withdraw the invitation and denounced the American president’s travel ban as “racist”.

Some of the UK’s most prominent Muslim organisations organised the event awith leftwing organisations including Stand Up to Racism, Stop the War and the People’s Assembly.

A video message from Jeremy Corbyn, who was unable to attend, was played at the event. In the speech, he said that Theresa May and the Tories “are on the wrong side of history”. Corbyn told the crowds Trump’s state visit invite “should be withdrawn until the executive orders are gone and every element of them repealed”.

After apologising for not being there, he said: “Let no one be in doubt that I will oppose and the Labour party will oppose all those who fan the flames of fear at home and abroad. I support the demand of millions of people in Britain that Donald Trump should not be welcomed on a state visit to this country while he continues to propagate his anti-women, anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican policies.”

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1. I certainly hope they realize that most Americans do not support trump