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| Donald Trump makes plans with May for UK visit 'later this year' | |
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| After meeting at Davos, US president and British PM ask officials to finalise details of visit | |
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| Plans are being made for Donald Trump to visit the UK later this year, following his meeting with Theresa May at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Downing Street has said. | |
| An official description of the talks at the Swiss resort released by No 10 said: “The PM and president concluded by asking officials to work together on finalising the details of a visit by the president to the UK later this year.” | An official description of the talks at the Swiss resort released by No 10 said: “The PM and president concluded by asking officials to work together on finalising the details of a visit by the president to the UK later this year.” |
| The readout did not say whether it would be a normal visit or the state visit offered to Trump when May visited him in Washington shortly after his inauguration last year. | The readout did not say whether it would be a normal visit or the state visit offered to Trump when May visited him in Washington shortly after his inauguration last year. |
| The state visit, which would see extensive ceremony and Trump staying at Buckingham Palace, has been delayed, reportedly amid concerns from Trump and his team that the visit would be met by mass protests in the UK. | The state visit, which would see extensive ceremony and Trump staying at Buckingham Palace, has been delayed, reportedly amid concerns from Trump and his team that the visit would be met by mass protests in the UK. |
| Earlier this month Trump also called off a planned trip to London to open the new US embassy, again believed to be connected to the prospect of protests. | |
| Trump claimed on Twitter that he had cancelled the visit because of his displeasure at Barack Obama having sold the old embassy in Grosvenor Square for “peanuts” and built a replacement in Nine Elms, south London. In fact the planned move began when George W Bush was still president. | |
| The prospect of Trump visiting the UK has been pushed by Downing Street, which is keen to keep ties with the White House close, not least in the hope it will improve the prospects of a more rapid UK-US trade deal after Brexit. | |
| However, Trump’s erratic behaviour, nationalist approach and support from the racist far-right have brought the prospect of mass protests when he does arrive, prompting reports that the US president is not keen to come to the UK. | |
| In June, it emerged that Trump had told May in a phone call that he would not carry out the state visit until the British public supported him coming. Since then, Downing Street has said only that the timing for the visit will be announced “in due course”. | |
| May herself has had her differences with Trump, being forced late last year to publicly rebuke him after he used Twitter to share propaganda videos from the UK-based far right anti-Islam group Britain First. | |
| Before the pair’s talks in Davos, broadcast comments of Trump and May saw the president deny that there were any tensions in the US-UK relationship. He said: “We’re on the same wavelength in I think in every respect.” | |
| The Downing Street description of the talks said they discussed the situation with Bombardier, the aviation firm that has been threatened with the imposition of tariffs by the US. | |
| It added: “The PM and the president discussed Iran, and the need to work together to combat the destabilising activity which it is conducting in the region, including ballistic missile development, and continuing efforts to ensure Iran does not develop nuclear weapons. | |
| “They also agreed on the importance of continuing to stand side-by-side in the fight against Daesh [Islamic State] in Syria and elsewhere. | |
| “The prime minister updated the president on the good progress which had been made in the Brexit negotiations so far. The two leaders reiterated their desire for a strong trading relationship post-Brexit, which would be in the interests of both countries.” | |
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