Trump calls London’s mayor stone-cold loser as he lands in UK
The US president is predicted to be unpredictable in his state visit, wading into the political minefields of Brexit, Huawei and Britain’s leadership choices
03 June 2019 - 12:43
London — US President Donald Trump began a state visit to Britain on Monday but the pomp and formal banquet with Queen Elizabeth looked set to be overshadowed by his views on Brexit, the UK’s next leader and a security row over China’s Huawei.
Trump and his wife, Melania, will be treated to a full display of British royal pageantry during the June 3-5 visit: lunch and a formal dinner with Queen Elizabeth, tea with heir Prince Charles, and a tour of Westminster Abbey, the coronation church of English monarchs for 1,000 years...
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