LOCAL MP Dr Sarah Wollaston has called President Donald Trump out for his ‘vile racial and religious stereotyping, misogyny and his support for torture’.

Writing for the Guardian on Sunday, Dr Wollaston said ‘in the rush to forge a trade deal, May should remember that Trump’s executive orders since assuming office don’t just affect millions of Americans, but British citizens too.’

One of those British citizens is Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi, who is now banned from the USA due to him being born in Iraq. He fled to the UK with his family at the age of nine in 1976, during Saddam Hussein’s early years in power.

Dr Wollaston continued: ‘All those countries on his banned list are predominantly Muslim countries apart from, as Andrew Neil points out, “those where Trump Org has business interests”.’

She said a ‘shameful curtain of prejudice and discrimination is drawing across the Land of the Free’ and if the UK was to have a truly ‘special relationship’ with the USA, ‘true friends should be frank in saying so’.

She also noted the removal of women’s rights with the so-called ‘global gag rule’, introduced by Ronald Reagan in 1984 and rescinded by every Democratic president and reintroduced by every Republican president since, including in the last week, Donald Trump.

The global gag order means removing US funding from any programme around the world that has any connection with abortion. This means cutting funding to family planning programmes, limiting access to contraception, causing more unwanted pregnancies, fewer cervical screenings, fewer prenatal checkups and HIV support programmes.

Dr Wollaston then alludes to the petition to prevent Donald Trump coming to the UK on a state visit which so far has garnered more than 1.6million signatures and is still rising, saying: ‘Trump’s state visit looks set to go ahead, but symbols matter.

‘Westminster Hall has long been reserved for those statesmen and stateswomen who have made a lasting and positive difference in the world.

‘That does not include Donald Trump.

‘No doubt there will be those who wish to fawn over him, but that must not be from the steps of our nation’s greatest hall.’

You can follow Dr Sarah Wollaston on Twitter: @sarahwollaston