TEHRAN, December 20 - US President Donald Trump has told British prime minister Theresa May he will visit Britain in the new year - but will not meet the Queen, it emerged Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - He and the prime minister instead discussed a 'working visit' to London, which is penciled in for late February.
Trump will use the trip to open the new US embassy in London, while he is also expected to hold talks with the Prime Minister in Downing Street.
But a planned meeting with the Queen will not take place until he makes a full state visit – plans for which are on ice.
The decision comes after months of questions over a state visit, which May offered the president when they met at the White House after his inauguration.
Trump’s visit to the UK comes despite a series of public clashes with May, including a major row last month when the Prime Minister condemned Trump's decision to re-tweet anti-Muslim propaganda from far-Right group Britain First.
The PM was also critical of Trump recognizing Jerusalem (al-Quds) as Israel's ‘capital’ – a move the UK views as damaging to hopes for a two-state solution.
No mention of Trump's trip to the UK was made in read-outs of the call released by No 10 and the White House.
But a Whitehall source said Trump had told the PM he would be visiting Britain to attend the opening of the £750million American embassy, as reported in the Mail this month.
Earlier this year more than a million people signed a petition calling for a planned state visit to be cancelled – raising the prospect that Trump could spark the biggest protests since the Iraq War when 1 million protested in London.
Source: Dailymail
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