Donald Trump's unprecedented SECOND State Visit to UK

The fact that Donald Trump is being granted a second State Visit to the UK - the first one was in June 2019 - says everything about the way the Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer is desperate to keep the unpredictable American president on side for the next three and a half years of his second term in office. Trump loves the British royal family and will ooze charm when he arrives with First Lady Melania tomorrow evening for a two-day event. Starmer will also be obsequiously attendant to Trump because that is how he believes he can keep the president happy. One wrong move or one wrong comment and there could be trouble. But Starmer will have learnt his lines very carefully. Quite what Trump will think when he sees all the protesters waving their banners at him we will have to see. But he won't appreciate it, and Starmer will be anxious to keep the protesters as far away as possible which probably means the police have been ordered to tuck them away down side streets. There will be no repeat of the staggering arrival of 110,000 far right demonstrators who filled the streets in central London at the weekend. The police will see to that. But during the two-day State Visit, everyone in the government and law enforcement is going to be terrified about the possibiity of something going wrong. All the other US presidents who won two terms in office were invited to tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle durng their second term, no state visit. But Trump is being given very special treatment because of Starmer's paranoia about displeasing the president. There will be no repetition of the Hugh Grant speech in Love Actually when the actor playing the British prime minister turned on the visiting American president and said America was not a friend if all it did was demand what it wanted from a relationship. Grant went on to praise Britain's greatness. Today Britain's greatness is under greater threat than ever.