Trump makes plans with May for UK visit 'later this year'

January 25, 2018 23:57

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.

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.

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.

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