Opinion: Bill English toes cautious line over Trump's Muslim banSUPPLIED PM Bill English is unlikely to take a strong position on the US' travel ban when Donald Trump calls this week. People dismissed Trump's Muslim ban as the talk of a blowhard and fantasist who had no clue about the impossibility of doing so without tipping the word into chaos. REUTERS Demonstrators hold welcome signs for immigrants during second day of anti-Donald Trump immigration ban protests inside Terminal 4 at San Francisco International Airport. READ MORE:* US federal judge blocks Trump's immigration ban* Australia backs Donald Trump over immigration ban* Muslim ban 'not NZ way': NZ Prime Minister Bill English* Explainer: The US immigration order that unleashed chaosIt is into these treacherous waters that Bill English is having to take his first steps as international statesman. In his first comments on the Muslim ban, English has followed the more cautious line of the likes of British Prime Minister Theresa May, saying the policy is wrong, while not condemning it outright.

Source: Stuff January 30, 2017 06:56 UTC