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Donald Trump is a fascist in the same mold as Hitler, and his state visit to Britain should be cancelled, a veteran Labour MP said today.

Bolsover firebrand Dennis Skinner urged ministers to stand up to the new US president over his travel ban on refugees and citizens from several mainly Muslim countries.

Mr Skinner joined growing calls for the Government to scrap plans to host Mr Trump, who he said is not fit for the honour of addressing Parliament in Westminster Hall as Nelson Mandela did in 2003.

Johnson was jeered at by MPs for claiming the US president had been "needlessly demonised" by Labour MPs.

And he told MPs making comparisons with Europe in the 1930s their arguments "trivialised the holocaust."

Speaking during an urgent Commons statement on the travel ban, Mr Skinner said: "Will the Foreign Secretary (Boris Johnson) just for a moment try to recall, along with me, as I hid underneath the stairs when two fascist dictators, Mussolini and Hitler, were raining bombs on towns and cities in Britain.

"Now this Government are hand-in-hand with another fascist - Trump.

"And what I say to him - do the decent thing and ban the visit. This man is not fit to walk in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela."

Mr Johnson dismissed the Hitler comparison and insisted it is in Britain's interests to work with the new president.

He said: "I hesitate to say it but your memory must be at fault if you think Mussolini rained bombs on this country.

"But I hear the comparison that he makes, I don't accept that comparison.

"I believe it's in our interests to work with our American friends and partners to show our disquiet where that is appropriate and to get the best deal for UK nationals and dual nationals."

Yvette Cooper made the first of a string of Second World War references as MPs condemned the policy today in the House of Commons.

The Labour MP, who chairs the powerful Home Affairs Committee, said distancing Britain from the policy was "not good enough".

She warned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson: "This order was signed on Holocaust Memorial Day.

"For the sake of history, for heaven's sake have the guts to speak out!"