Bush hits out at Republican ‘isolationism’

GEORGE W BUSH has said the Republican Party he served as president has become “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” and added he is especially concerned about anti-immigration rhetoric.

“It’s a beautiful country we have and yet it’s not beautiful when we condemn, call people names and scare people about immigration,” Mr Bush told NBC’S Today show.

The former US president, above, said his new book, Out Of Many, One: Portraits Of America’s Immigrants, aims to “elevate the discourse”. Mr Bush did not mention Donald Trump, who aggressively curbed both legal and illegal immigration during his tenure and sought to build a wall at the south-west border with Mexico to keep out migrants.