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    British furor over Trump retweets

    by Christina Boyle and Laura King, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2017 4 minutes

    LONDON - If President Donald Trump thought a trans-Atlantic outcry over his online sharing of far-right anti-Muslim Twitter posts might begin subsiding Thursday, that seems to have been a political miscalculation.

    In London, the furor that first stirred Wednesday with the president's retweeting of videos promoted by the anti-Muslim group Britain First gained stridency and volume - and moved to the floor of the venerable House of Commons, where one British lawmaker after another denounced the U.S. leader's action and demanded the rescinding of an invitation for him to pay a state visit to the United Kingdom.

    "Action is needed now, not a slap on the wrist," said Labor lawmaker Dennis Skinner. "Cancel the

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