Trump’s heading back to Britain!

DONALD Trump is to visit Britain in December for a Nato summit, in a move that is expected to spark angry protests.

The US President, who has previously threatened to withdraw from the military alliance in a row over funding, will join other heads of state in London – the location of Nato’s first HQ – to mark 70 years since it was founded.

Unless a rumoured state visit in the summer goes ahead, it will be the second time he has visited the UK. His first official trip, last July, led to widespread demonstrations that cost taxpayers £14million in security expenses.

When Mr Trump attended last year’s Nato summit, in Brussels, he caused chaos by cancelling meetings with heads of state. He also accused allies of not contributing enough to the alliance’s budget and letting the US take the strain of defending Europe from the growing threat from Russia.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement last night that ‘the Allies have agreed’ to meet to discuss security challenges. Prime Minister Theresa May said it would be an ‘important opportunity’ to modernise, adding: ‘ The UK has played a central role throughout Nato’s history as it has adapted to deal with new and complex threats to our security.’

On Tuesday, Mr Trump used his State of the Union address to point out his seeming success in persuading other Nato members to cough up more money for defence. He said: ‘We are getting other nations to pay their fair share. Finally. For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by friends of ours – members of Nato. But now we have secured more than $100billion of increase in defence spending from our Nato allies. They said it couldn’t be done.’

The announcement of the trip led the Liberal Democrats to say they would be ‘front and centre to protest his visit’, and the Green Party said they would be ‘there to greet him’.

Details of the trip came after Mr Trump announced he would hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jongun later this month in Vietnam.

Kate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (CND), said: ‘The Nato summit will be a crucial opportunity for our movement to oppose Trump’s nuclear warmongering and highlight the dangerous role Nato, as a nuclear alliance, plays in raising international tensions.’

Policing Mr Trump’s visit to the UK in July 2018 – when he was kept away from official engagements in London due to security concerns – cost more than £ 14.2million, according to official figures.

Nato said a final venue and date was yet to be determined.