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| Donald Trump’s postponed state visit to the UK will go ahead in June, it has been confirmed, prompting renewed calls for protests against the trip. | Donald Trump’s postponed state visit to the UK will go ahead in June, it has been confirmed, prompting renewed calls for protests against the trip. |
| Buckingham Palace said the three-day trip would start on 3 June. The president would then travel to Normandy in France on 6 June to take part in the 75th anniversary commemorations of the D-day landings. | Buckingham Palace said the three-day trip would start on 3 June. The president would then travel to Normandy in France on 6 June to take part in the 75th anniversary commemorations of the D-day landings. |
| On Tuesday, No 10 said the visit would include discussions with Theresa May in Downing Street. On the final day of his trip, Trump and his wife, Melania, will attend an event in Portsmouth to mark the D-day landings. No 10 said the event would be “one of the greatest British military spectacles in recent history” and would include a flypast of 26 types of RAF aircraft and at least 11 Royal Navy boats in the Solent. | |
| May said: “The UK and United States have a deep and enduring partnership that is rooted in our common history and shared interests. | |
| “We do more together than any two nations in the world and we are both safer and more prosperous because of our cooperation. The state visit is an opportunity to strengthen our already close relationship in areas such as trade, investment, security and defence, and to discuss how we can build on these ties in the years ahead.” | “We do more together than any two nations in the world and we are both safer and more prosperous because of our cooperation. The state visit is an opportunity to strengthen our already close relationship in areas such as trade, investment, security and defence, and to discuss how we can build on these ties in the years ahead.” |
| A White House spokesman said: “This state visit will reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition to meeting the Queen, the president will participate in a bilateral meeting with [the] prime minister, Theresa May.” | |
| Confirmation of the trip has renewed controversy over May’s decision to invite Trump for a full state visit when she met the president shortly after he took office. | Confirmation of the trip has renewed controversy over May’s decision to invite Trump for a full state visit when she met the president shortly after he took office. |
| State visits are formal trips for heads of state involving considerable ceremony and time with the Queen. The invitation was extended by May when she became the first foreign leader to visit Trump in the White House after his inauguration. | State visits are formal trips for heads of state involving considerable ceremony and time with the Queen. The invitation was extended by May when she became the first foreign leader to visit Trump in the White House after his inauguration. |
| When Trump travelled to the UK on an official but non-state visit in July 2018, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest and a four-metre-high Trump baby blimp was floated above Parliament Square. The policing operation for the visit cost about £18m. | When Trump travelled to the UK on an official but non-state visit in July 2018, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest and a four-metre-high Trump baby blimp was floated above Parliament Square. The policing operation for the visit cost about £18m. |
| The prospect of Trump being granted the honour of a carriage ride down the Mall appals many MPs. Anti-Trump campaigners are calling for a protest in London on 4 June. | The prospect of Trump being granted the honour of a carriage ride down the Mall appals many MPs. Anti-Trump campaigners are calling for a protest in London on 4 June. |
| Asad Rehman, the executive director of War on Want and a member of the Stop Trump Coalition, said the group was preparing for a “huge mobilisation”. | |
| “It will make lots and lots of people very angry. We will be easily expecting way more than the quarter of a million people who turned out last time,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme. | |
| “It will be very visual, it will be very creative, it will be a carnival atmosphere. People will be making sure that Donald Trump doesn’t have the photo opportunity that he wants.” | |
| Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, issued a strongly worded statement against the visit. “It beggars belief that on the very same day Donald Trump is threatening to veto a UN resolution against the use of rape as a weapon of war, Theresa May is pressing ahead with her plans to honour him with a state visit to the UK,” she said. | |
| “This is a president who has systematically assaulted all the shared values that unite our two countries, and unless Theresa May is finally going to stand up to him and object to that behaviour, she has no business wasting taxpayers’ money on all the pomp, ceremony and policing costs that will come with this visit.” | |
| Several Labour MPs said Trump’s controversial views and record in office meant he should not be welcomed in the UK. | Several Labour MPs said Trump’s controversial views and record in office meant he should not be welcomed in the UK. |
| The shadow Treasury minister, Clive Lewis, urged protesters to “dust off the blimp”. | |
| Dust off the blimp @crisortunity #TrumpUKVisit pic.twitter.com/Og9feH3Wfx | Dust off the blimp @crisortunity #TrumpUKVisit pic.twitter.com/Og9feH3Wfx |
| David Lammy described Trump as “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and not worthy of the UK’s highest honours and a banquet with the Queen. “Theresa May is selling out the UK to a serial liar and a cheat,” he said. | |
| Labour MP Stephen Doughty said the invitation was “bonkers” and called Trump a “racist, sexist, extremist” whose presence would deepen divisions in the country. | |
| Bonkers. And the Prime Minister thinks this will help with the divisions in our country exactly how? This man is a racist, sexist, extremist who was happy to promote far-right content from Britain First. Not the America I know and love. Not welcome. https://t.co/OTi3azfDTT | Bonkers. And the Prime Minister thinks this will help with the divisions in our country exactly how? This man is a racist, sexist, extremist who was happy to promote far-right content from Britain First. Not the America I know and love. Not welcome. https://t.co/OTi3azfDTT |
| It is unusual for a state visit to be announced at such short notice, and details of the trip have yet to be finalised with fewer than six weeks to go. It is unclear if Trump will be invited, or allowed, to address both houses of parliament. | |
| In February 2017, the House of Commons Speaker said Trump should not be allowed to speak to parliament. “I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons,” said John Bercow. | |
| On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Speaker’s Office said: “Should a request be made to address the Houses of Parliament, it will be considered in the usual way.” | |
| It will be only the third state visit by a US president during the Queen’s 67-year reign. Trump’s two immediate predecessors, George W Bush and Barack Obama, were also given the honour. | It will be only the third state visit by a US president during the Queen’s 67-year reign. Trump’s two immediate predecessors, George W Bush and Barack Obama, were also given the honour. |
| During his visit last year, Trump met the Queen at Windsor Castle. He described the Queen as a “tremendous woman” who had “really never made a mistake”. | |
| Trump’s previous visit was timed to coincide with ceremonies in France to mark the 1918 armistice. Unlike other world leaders, he failed to turn up to some of the planned events because of rain. | |
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