{"id":264628,"date":"2025-07-14T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264628\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:09:10","slug":"donald-trumps-heading-back-to-britain-cue-a-load-of-complaining-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264628\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s heading back to Britain. Cue a load of complaining. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey have done the politics of it very, very cleverly,\u201d said one Labour MP of the timings.<\/p>\n

But the U.S. president has plenty of adversaries who want him nowhere near Westminster. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the invite going out, Labour MP Kate Osborne wrote twice<\/a> to Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle asking for assurances Trump would not address parliament. \u201cThe president has repeatedly made worrying and uncomfortable comments about our U.K. democracy, the Middle East and equalities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ed Davey, who leads the Trump-bashing centrist Liberal Democrats, had a novel idea to send a signal.<\/p>\n

He said Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u201cshould invite [Canadian Prime Minister] Mark Carney for an official visit to the U.K. just ahead of Trump\u2019s visit, including the opportunity to address parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would send an important signal that Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Canada against Trump\u2019s chaotic trade war,\u201d Davey added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey have done the politics of it very, very cleverly,\u201d said one Labour MP of the timings. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1193,943,6217,31,32,11858,68596,95965,807,100513,2129,839,12,384,5111,48,101104,1201,1219,16,15,49,771,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-264628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-british-politics","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-david-lammy","12":"tag-democracy","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-ed-davey","15":"tag-john-cooper","16":"tag-kate-osborne","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-lindsay-hoyle","19":"tag-mark-carney","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nigel-farage","23":"tag-parliament","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-suella-braverman","26":"tag-trade","27":"tag-trade-war","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852460175023303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}