White House confirms Donald Trump will visit Britain on 13 July
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Donald Trump will finally visit Britain for the first time as American president this summer, it has been confirmed.
The White House said he will come to the UK on 13 July, following a Nato summit in Brussels.
A Number 10 spokesman said: "He will hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister during his visit. Further details will be set out in due course."
President Trump had been due to visit London to open the new US embassy in February, but dramatically pulled out at the last minute.
He confirmed the trip was no longer happening in a typically-bullish tweet in which he laid the blame at the previous Obama administration for selling the previous US Embassy "for peanuts".
Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit President Trump at the White House in January last year, just days after he was sworn in.
She also invited him to the UK for a full state visit, something normally only afforded to presidents who have been in office for several years.
It is understood that July's trip will instead be a working visit and only last one day.
Relations between Downing Street and the White House have repeatedly been strained throughout President Trump's time in the Oval Office.
Last November, the Prime Minister said the president had been "wrong" to retweet posts from far-right group Britain First - prompting the maverick Republican to say the Prime Minister should concentrate on tackling terrorism in the UK.
The pair have also been at odds over comments President Trump has made about the NHS, and his decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the president said he and Mrs May "like each other a lot".
Speaking after the pair held talks, he said: "The Prime Minister and myself have a really great relationship. Some people don’t necessarily believe that I can tell you it’s true, I have a tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the job she’s doing and I think the feeling is mutual from the standpoint of liking each other a lot and that was a little bit of a false rumour out there, I just wanted to correct it, frankly.
"We have respect for everything you’re doing. We love your country, we think it’s really good."
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