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Sir Nicholas Soames has apologised for woofing at a fellow MP in the House of Commons.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh was questioning Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the government's reaction to the US travel ban when the incident occurred.
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Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan congratulates Labour MP Ed Miliband for obtaining the debate and also Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi for making a "moving speech" in support.
He says that President Trump's executive order goes beyond President Obama's removal of countries from the US visa waiver scheme and is "more sweeping".
The minister tells the House that "the immigration policy of the United States is a matter for the United States" but the UK government worked to ensure that UK citizens "are not detrimentally affected".
The UK government had to avoid being "diplomatically offensive" in a way which might make things worse for UK citizens he argues, and instead made it possible for all UK passport holders to continue to visit the United States.
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"This is, frankly, a debate that I never thought we needed to have," says shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.
She says many people are looking at President Trump "aghast" at what he has done and may do in the future, yet "we are willing to roll out the red carpet" to the US President.
She says most US presidents had to wait an average of 25 months in office before a state visit to the UK and asks: "Why the indecent haste for this most indecent of presidents?"
Ms Thornberry states that Labour will oppose a state visit while the travel ban remains in place and says Theresa May has not spoken out, which she calls "not just shameful; it is cowardly".
She adds: "Some iron lady she's turned out to be."
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SDLP MP Mark Durkan makes an impassioned call for the invitation to Donald Trump to make a state visit to the UK to be withdrawn.
"We shouldn't be afraid of offending the narcissism of this man," he says.
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SNP spokeswoman Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh reflects that Donald Trump signed his executive order on Holocaust Memorial Day.
She argues that the process leading to the Holocaust "began with othering minorities and began with institutionalising racism in the laws of the land".
She tells MP: "We are speaking up for what is right. It is President Trump who is wrong."
Ms Ahmed-Sheikh says German chancellor Angela Markel, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have spoken out but Theresa May has "failed".
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SNP MP Peter Grant says President Trump's immigration policy appalls him as a Christian.
He suggests that, if Jesus arrived at US immigration, he would be turned away under the new rules, for having "a Palestinian passport, no valid birth certificate and he would be unable to prove he was a Christian because he hadn't invented it yet".
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Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts says Boris Johnson urged "engagement" with United States in his statement to the House.
"And this from a man who led with great gusto a campaign persuading us to turn our back on our closest and largest economic relationship," she says.
The current foreign secretary was a key figure in the campaign to leave the EU.
"Boxed into a corner by this government's self-imposed Brexit boundaries, we are forced to creep cap in hand to people whose values now run directly counter to those professed by this House."
If Donald Trump does visit the UK, she declares she "will not kowtow to Mr Trump and his prejudiced administration if he is invited to address us".
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SNP MP Lisa Cameron tells the House that she worked on "violence risk assessments" before she was an MP, including "violent extremist risk assessments". This would include assessing an individual's belief systems.
She argues that "a blanket ban" such as President Trump's travel ban is "likely to aggravate extremist beliefs and attitudes".
She adds: "This order will only strengthen feelings against the United States and against the West."
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"What we are witnessing in our world is an old, old story," says Labour's Alison McGovern.
In difficult economic times, the "far right" will tell people that their troubles are not the fault of the economic system but "people who are just like you but they happen to be from another part of the world".
She tells MPs: "Those of us who stand against that cannot give in to populism. We cannot kowtow to prejudice."
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"Something's happened," says Conservative former minister Anna Soubry.
"It's not just in America. It's happening in our country too."
She claims that the seeds of intolerance are "in danger of flourishing" in the UK as well as the US.
Ms Soubry says the UK government has a "duty" to oppose Donald Trump on the current immigration policy and MPs also have a duty to campain "for tolerance, for peace, for understanding".
Otherwise, she adds, "we are in danger of finding that too many people in our own nation support this abominable executive direction from this President".
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"My mother was a proud American," says Labour MP Hilary Benn.
He tells the House that he and others with family connections to the United States have felt "a sense of shame and rising anger".
He argues that the US travel ban will be counter-productive and could "act as a recruiting sergeant" for the Islamic State group.
The former shadow foreign secretary also argues that the UK's security is "too important" to be put at risk by the US President's move.
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Crispin Blunt, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says the US has a "separation of powers".
The Conservative MP says Theresa May's visit to the US means "she is in a place to ally herself with the secretaries of state" and others in the administration besides Mr Trump.
Mr Blunt praises US Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who said in a joint statement: "Ultimately we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism."
He hopes that this executive order will be "rescinded and recast in a sensible way".
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Labour MP Naz Shah talks through "the path to genocide".
She says it begins with a division between "us and them", then a "visual manifestation of hatred" and then dehuminisation.
How must American Muslims feel right now? she asks.
"My skin colour is a few shades darker," she says. "That does not make me a threat to western democracy."
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Miss Liberty is holding her head in shame, says Conservative MP Sir Simon Burns.
He says "the ban is nasty, immoral and will not succeed".
However he argues that "very little" will be achieved by cancelling President's Trump visit to the UK.
Instead, he says the UK government should seek to influence the president.
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Labour MP and Home Affairs Committee Chair Yvette Cooper does not want to ban President Trump.
She says she wants the prime minister to meet him regularly.
However, she is "deeply worried" that it will not be "a normal visit" but a ceremonial visit involving the Royal Family.
It will look like an endorsement, she says.