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Theresa May risks unrest by paving way for Donald Trump visit (2nd half of 2018)
Source: The Guardian
Theresa May risks unrest by paving way for Donald Trump visit
Prime minister orders officials to make plans for visit by the US president later this year after pair meet at Davos
Larry Elliott in Davos and Peter Walker
Thu 25 Jan 2018 19.37 GMT
Theresa May has taken the gamble of inviting Donald Trump to make his controversial visit to Britain later this year after a meeting between the prime minister and the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The move followed a 15-minute meeting between the two leaders in which the president promised the US would always “be there” for Britain, assured May “we love your country” and said that they “like each other a lot”.
A senior UK government source said the visit was expected to take place in the second half of this year, after the pair meet again at the Nato summit in Brussels in July.
A Downing Street source said both the UK and US were planning for a working visit. This pushes the prospect of Trump’s state visit ever further into the future, and raises the possibility that it might never happen.
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Prime minister orders officials to make plans for visit by the US president later this year after pair meet at Davos
Larry Elliott in Davos and Peter Walker
Thu 25 Jan 2018 19.37 GMT
Theresa May has taken the gamble of inviting Donald Trump to make his controversial visit to Britain later this year after a meeting between the prime minister and the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The move followed a 15-minute meeting between the two leaders in which the president promised the US would always “be there” for Britain, assured May “we love your country” and said that they “like each other a lot”.
A senior UK government source said the visit was expected to take place in the second half of this year, after the pair meet again at the Nato summit in Brussels in July.
A Downing Street source said both the UK and US were planning for a working visit. This pushes the prospect of Trump’s state visit ever further into the future, and raises the possibility that it might never happen.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/25/trump-and-may-discuss-uk-visit-later-this-year-davos
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