The start of a momentous week. Tomorrow we shall be debating the Bill which will allow the Government to trigger Article 50, thereby starting the process of leaving the EU. Many of us who wanted to leave still can't believe that we have travelled this far after so many decades of opposition to a political experiment that was always bound to fail. Anyway, today, after a couple of hours in my office, I headed to London for what turned out to be an interesting afternoon. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson came to the Chamber at about 1530 to make a Statement on Mr Trump's changes to US immigration policy. On 27 January, Mr Trump issued an Executive Order banning the citizens of seven countries from entering the US for a period of 90 days. Those countries are Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Sudan. Mr Johnson said: "I should add that it was the Obama administration which withdrew those countries from the US visa waiver programme in 2016. The immigration policy of the United States is, of course, a matter for the Government of the United States." He went on to say that the ban did not affect any British passport holders, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they hold another passport. Mr Johnson said that the Government would never consider these sort of measures for the UK, but that the US was an important ally and trading partner and it was in the national interest that we continued to work with Mr Trump and his team. Meanwhile, outside the Commons, and across come cities in the UK, protesters made their feelings known about the Trump policy, which is their right of course. This was all whipped up via social media, which has its place but tends to push an argument to the extremes. Mr Trump told the US electorate he would crack down on immigration during the campaign and now he's doing exactly what he said he would do. I think the shock for many is the fact that a politician is actually doing what he said he'd do! There were also calls for the Government to cancel the State Visit which I do not agree with. You are lauding the country during a State Visit, not necessarily the man or woman in charge of it. And, as I've said, the US is very important to the UK and of course the rest of the free world. After only 15 minutes of Mr Johnson's Statement, I had to head upstairs for a delegated committee meeting, which fortunately did not last long, allowing me to return to the Chamber and to catch the Speaker's eye. Then at 1800 I attended our regular meeting of SW MPs, where Patrick McLoughlin MP, Chairman of the Party, had come to talk to us. The meeting was in private, but it was most interesting and clearly Patrick is doing a great job at Head Office. After the Statement, the Speaker had granted a three hour emergency debate on the row over Trump's immigration policy. It had been called by Ed Miliband. I did listen to some of it before heading back to my office to attend to several other matters. Due to this debate, Government business went on to about 2300, then home.