More than 250,000 people have signed a petition calling for the US President to be prevented from making a state visit to the United Kingdom, in just a few hours.

The UK government responds to all petitions that receive more than 10,000 signatures, and at 100,000 signatures it must consider them for debate in Parliament.

Citing Mr Trump’s “well documented misogyny and vulgarity”, the petition calls for Mr Trump to be allowed into the country, but not invited to meet the Queen.

At the time of writing on Sunday afternoon, approximately 1,000 people were adding their name to the petition every minute.

“Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government,” the petition reads, “but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.”

It continues: “Donald Trump’s well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales. Therefore during the term of his presidency Donald Trump should not be invited to the United Kingdom for an official State Visit.”

The petition met the criteria for consideration by 12.45pm on Sunday, just a few hours after exceeding 10,000 signatures. At one point it was signed over 56,000 times in an hour.

Petition data shows most of the signatures came from north, south, and central London, with other hotspots scattered across the UK, including in the cities of Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester.

The Prime Minister first announced last week, during her visit to Washington, that Mr Trump had accepted an invitation from the Queen to visit the UK later this year.

Theresa May refused three times during her trip to condemn Mr Trump’s controversial immigration policy, which bans people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

One of Ms May’s own MPs, Nadhim Zahawi, said the ban would stop him entering the country. He said he felt demeaned by the policy, adding: “For the first time in my life last night I felt discriminated against.”

The petition was launched as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Mr Trump’s state visit to be put on hold for as long as the immigration ban is in place.

Just before midnight on Saturday, under considerable pressure from the public, a spokesperson for Ms May released a statement opposing the ban, saying: “Immigration policy in the United States is a matter for the government of the United States, just the same as immigration policy for this country should be set by our government.

“But we do not agree with this kind of approach and it is not one we will be taking. We are studying this new executive order to see what it means and what the legal effects are, and in particular what the consequences are for UK nationals.”

Campaigners are currently calling on social media for London to stage the “biggest protest ever” against Mr Trump, if his visit to the UK does take place. </s> LONDON (AP) — A state visit to Britain by President Donald Trump later this year will go ahead, the prime minister’s office said Monday, despite increasing calls for it to be canceled over his temporary ban on residents of seven majority-Muslim countries entering the U.S. Furor over the travel ban has tarnished what British officials had considered a highly successful trip to Washington by Prime Minister Theresa May. She met Trump at the White House on Friday and announced that he had been invited to come to Britain later this year as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. May’s Downing St. office said Monday that “an invitation has been extended and accepted,” and the visit is still on. No date has been announced for the state visit, which involves lavish pomp and ceremony, generally with a stay at Buckingham Palace. The visit was hailed by government officials as a sign of the close trans-Atlantic relationship, which was also reflected in May’s invitation to meet Trump just a week after his inauguration. But criticism of May’s wooing of Trump erupted when – only hours after the prime minister had left the White House – the president signed an executive order suspending all travel to the U.S. of citizens of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya for 90 days. The order also bars all refugees entering the country for 120 days. Britain’s three biggest opposition parties have all called for Trump’s state visit to be canceled and an online petition opposing the trip has more than 1.3 million signatures. Protests against the travel ban are planned Monday in London and other British cities. Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, though not a binding vote. Last year, Parliament debated whether to ban Trump, then a presidential candidate, from visiting Britain after a similar online petition. Trump’s travel ban sparked protests at airports across the U.S., and drew condemnation and concern from around the world. There was widespread confusion about whether the ban applied to dual nationals. Somali-born British Olympic champion runner Mo Farah said he feared it would prevent him returning to the U.S., where he lives. Late Sunday, Britain’s Foreign Office said U.S. authorities had clarified that the ban didn’t apply to British citizens who are also nationals of one of the seven countries. Canada’s foreign minister said he had been told the same about Canadian dual nationals. However, the website of the U.S. Embassy in London on Monday advised nationals of the seven countries – “including dual nationals” – not to book visa appointments, saying their applications would not be processed. The advice was removed from the site after several hours. The U.S. Embassy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the U.S. and the Americas program at the Chatham House think tank, said that “for the moment there doesn’t seem to be a single clear interpretation of the order, and it’s not entirely clear what the final result of the negotiations will be.” “So I think confusion is going to reign for some time,” he said. The apparent British exemption didn’t end the storm of opposition, with prominent members of May’s Conservative Party joining in calls for Trump’s visit to be scrapped. Sayeeda Warsi, a former government minister and Conservative member of the House of Lords, said that it was “sending out a wrong signal” to invite Trump, a leaders whose values “are not the same as British values.” Conservative lawmaker Sarah Wollaston said that Trump shouldn’t be invited to address both houses of Parliament, an honor given to many visiting foreign leaders. She said that “those who wish to fawn over him” should do so elsewhere. But former Conservative Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Britain had welcomed other leaders on state visits despite human rights concerns, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. He told the BBC that Trump, “whatever we think of him … is well-disposed to the United Kingdom, and it would be pretty silly, from everybody’s point of view, simply to throw away that opportunity to develop that relationship.” Associated Press writer Lynne O’Donnell contributed to this story. </s> LONDON (AP) — A state visit to Britain by President Donald Trump later this year will go ahead, the prime minister’s office said Monday, despite increasing calls for it to be canceled over his temporary ban on residents of seven majority-Muslim countries entering the U.S.

Furor over the travel ban has tarnished what British officials had considered a highly successful trip to Washington by Prime Minister Theresa May. She met Trump at the White House on Friday and announced that he had been invited to come to Britain later this year as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II.

May’s Downing St. office said Monday that “an invitation has been extended and accepted,” and the visit is still on.

No date has been announced for the state visit, which involves lavish pomp and ceremony, generally with a stay at Buckingham Palace.

The visit was hailed by government officials as a sign of the close trans-Atlantic relationship, which was also reflected in May’s invitation to meet Trump just a week after his inauguration.

But criticism of May’s wooing of Trump erupted when — only hours after the prime minister had left the White House — the president signed an executive order suspending all travel to the U.S. of citizens of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya for 90 days. The order also bars all refugees entering the country for 120 days.

Britain’s three biggest opposition parties have all called for Trump’s state visit to be canceled and an online petition opposing the trip has more than 1.3 million signatures. Protests against the travel ban are planned Monday in London and other British cities.

Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, though not a binding vote.

Last year, Parliament debated whether to ban Trump, then a presidential candidate, from visiting Britain after a similar online petition.

Trump’s travel ban sparked protests at airports across the U.S., and drew condemnation and concern from around the world.

There was widespread confusion about whether the ban applied to dual nationals. Somali-born British Olympic champion runner Mo Farah said he feared it would prevent him returning to the U.S., where he lives.

Late Sunday, Britain’s Foreign Office said U.S. authorities had clarified that the ban didn’t apply to British citizens who are also nationals of one of the seven countries. Canada’s foreign minister said he had been told the same about Canadian dual nationals.

However, the website of the U.S. Embassy in London on Monday advised nationals of the seven countries — “including dual nationals” — not to book visa appointments, saying their applications would not be processed.

The advice was removed from the site after several hours. The U.S. Embassy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the U.S. and the Americas program at the Chatham House think tank, said that “for the moment there doesn’t seem to be a single clear interpretation of the order, and it’s not entirely clear what the final result of the negotiations will be.”

“So I think confusion is going to reign for some time,” he said.

The apparent British exemption didn’t end the storm of opposition, with prominent members of May’s Conservative Party joining in calls for Trump’s visit to be scrapped.

Sayeeda Warsi, a former government minister and Conservative member of the House of Lords, said that it was “sending out a wrong signal” to invite Trump, a leaders whose values “are not the same as British values.”

Conservative lawmaker Sarah Wollaston said that Trump shouldn’t be invited to address both houses of Parliament, an honor given to many visiting foreign leaders.

She said that “those who wish to fawn over him” should do so elsewhere.

But former Conservative Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Britain had welcomed other leaders on state visits despite human rights concerns, including Chinese President Xi Jinping.

He told the BBC that Trump, “whatever we think of him … is well-disposed to the United Kingdom, and it would be pretty silly, from everybody’s point of view, simply to throw away that opportunity to develop that relationship.”

Associated Press writer Lynne O’Donnell contributed to this story.

 Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. </s> President Donald Trump’s order barring U.S. entry to people from seven majority Muslim nations is “divisive, discriminatory and wrong,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Monday. But he rebuffed calls for the government to cancel Trump’s planned state visit to the UK because of the temporary ban.

Johnson said he had told American officials that it’s wrong “to promulgate policies that stigmatize people on the basis of their nationality.”

He told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the Trump administration had assured him that “all British passport holders remain welcome to travel to the U.S.,” even if they are also citizens of one of the seven countries.

Confusion has reigned about whether dual nationals are affected by the 90-day ban on citizens of Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya.

Britain’s three biggest opposition parties have all called on the government to revoke Trump’s state visit, planned for later this year.

Several thousand protesters demonstrated near Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street London residence Monday evening, chanting “Donald Trump has got to go” and “Shame on May.” Some placards branded the prime minister “Theresa the Appeaser.” It was the largest of a series of protests across the country, including in Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Cardiff and Glasgow.

“Friends, first they came for the Muslims,” Scottish National Party lawmaker Angus Robertson told the London crowd. “But we say something — and we say no state visit for Donald Trump.”

An online petition opposing the trip has more than 1.5 million signatures. Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered for a debate in Parliament, though not a binding vote.

State visits involve lavish pomp and ceremony, generally with a stay at Buckingham Palace as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. Some Trump critics say he should not receive the privileged reception.

But May said during a visit to Dublin that she had issued an invitation, “and that invitation stands.”

Johnson also said the visit should go ahead.

“He is the elected head of state of our closest and most important ally and there is absolutely no reason why he should not be accorded a state visit, and every reason why he should,” Johnson said.

Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Yvette Cooper was one of several legislators to accuse the government of a weak response.

Noting that Trump’s order had been signed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Cooper told Johnson: “For the sake of history, for heaven’s sake have the guts to speak out.”

During an emergency House of Commons debate on the ban, former Labour leader Ed Miliband said the travel ban amounted to “perversity, discrimination and divisiveness at its heart” and would make the world a more dangerous place by handing a propaganda coup to Islamic State extremists.

Conservative lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi, who was born in Iraq, urged Trump to “remember the values on which his great country was built” and to rescind the ban.

Another lawmaker from the governing Conservatives, Simon Burns, said: “I suspect that Miss Liberty is holding her head in shame at the moment” because of the order.

Furor over the travel ban has tarnished what British officials had considered a highly successful trip to Washington by May, who met Trump at the White House on Friday — the first foreign leader to visit the president since his inauguration.

Criticism of May’s wooing of Trump erupted when — only hours after the prime minister had left the White House — the president signed an executive order imposing a 90-day entry ban for citizens of the seven countries. The order also bars all refugees entering the country for 120 days.

Trump’s travel ban sparked protests at airports across the U.S., and drew condemnation and concern from around the world.

The website of the U.S. Embassy in London on Monday advised nationals of the seven countries — “including dual nationals” — not to book visa appointments, saying their applications would not be processed.

The advice was removed from the site before Johnson’s statement to Parliament.

Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the U.S. and the Americas program at the Chatham House think tank, said details of the ban were still unclear. He said there was “a great deal of diplomatic work to be done to soothe tensions with a lot of countries that are allied with the United States.”

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. </s> United States President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom (UK) is likely to happen next year.

According to Sky News, Downing Street and White House are looking for possible options to arrange for Trump's state visit next year.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May, during her visit to the US in February, had announced Queen Elizabeth's invitation of a state visit to Trump.

However, shortly after the news, many people in the UK launched a petition titled 'Prevent Donald Trump from making State Visit to the United Kingdom' to protest against Trump's immigration ban.

The petition soon became popular and garnered over 1.8 million signatories, enough to be debated on in the UK Parliament.

It was reported that senior UK politicians, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, called for the visit to be cancelled.

There were protests organised countrywide against his visit too.

Trump, in June, had informed May that he would not travel to Britain until the protests against him come to an end in the country.

The White House, however, denied that the US President had any reservations about visiting the UK, and added that they were looking forward to working out a "mutually acceptable date."

There were also earlier reports that Trump may secretly drop in the UK during his Europe visit for the G20 Summit. </s> US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain is being planned for next year, a senior British government source said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Theresa May extended the invitation when she visited Washington just days after Trump’s inauguration in January, but a date has yet to be set.

The source said both sides had been unable to arrange a date for 2017 and were now looking for dates in 2018.

There has been speculation Trump was deferring the state visit, an occasion filled with pomp that involves a banquet with Queen Elizabeth II, amid concerns that it would draw protests over his presidency.

Questions about the trip also arose after it got no mention in the Queen’s annual speech to parliament in June, when it is customary for the monarch to list upcoming state visits.

But Trump confirmed he would be visiting Britain at the G20 in Hamburg, where he met with May, saying he “will be going to London”. Asked when, he replied: “We’ll work that out.”

May has been derided for seeking to curry favour with Trump and has come under fire for inviting him for a state visit so soon into his presidency.

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the smaller Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party have all called for the state visit to be cancelled, as have some from May’s own Conservative Party.

The Speaker of the House of Commons previously said he was “strongly opposed” to allowing Donald Trump to address members of parliament during the US president’s state visit later this year.

More than 160 of parliament’s 650 MPs have signed a parliamentary motion opposing an address by Trump, citing the travel ban and his comments on torture and women.

A speech to both Houses of Commons and Lords has been a feature of many previous state visits, including one by Barack Obama in 2011.

More than 1.8 million people have also signed an online petition saying Trump should not make the state visit as it “could cause embarrassment” to the monarch. </s> A revealing survey exposed 34 per cent of Brits would supports Theresa May shutting down the nations' borders to immigrants from countries with overt links to Islamist terror. Even more people, 38 per cent, would also welcome President Trump onto British shores as part of an official state visit, according to Sky Data.

When asked if they opposed President Trump's travel ban for non-US citizens coming from Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Somalia, 49 per cent of the 1,091 surveyed said they would oppose Trump's ban. But that figure decreased with the age of the respondent, with 71 per cent of the 18-34-year-old age bracket disapproving of Trump's executive order compared to 48 per cent of the 35-54-year-old bracket and only 42 per cent of the 55 and above group.

The ban was best supported in the Midland and Wales, with 44 per cent of people coming down in favour. London was the least Trump-friendly zone, with 77 per cent of respondents voicing their disapproval. Statistics revealed men were also significantly more likely to favour the ban on Islamic nations than their female counterparts, supporting the motion 39 per cent to 29 per cent.

It is a similar story when it comes to President Trump's upcoming state visit to Britain, with 38 per cent opposing the proposed cancellation of the trip, which has become a hot topic in recent days due to 1.4 million people signing a petition demanding its revocation. The petition, available of the Government's website, states: "Prevent Donald Trump from making a state visit to the United Kingdom". But Downing Street has categorically ruled out the downgrading of his trip.

Again the 18-34-year-old grouping was the most fervently anti-Trump, with 62 per cent demanding he is not allowed to attend the proposed state visit. Scotland, where Donald Trump's mother hails from, unsurprisingly came down in favour of the property mogul arriving on british shores, with 48 per cent backing his visit compared to 41 per cent saying they were against it. </s> The White House has denied a report that US President Donald Trump plans to delay his state visit to the United Kingdom over fears of potential protests and his perceived unpopularity.

According to a report by the Guardian on Sunday, Trump revealed his unease during a conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May in recent weeks, according to a Downing Street adviser who was in the room.

But a senior Trump administration source denied that the subject ever came up when Trump and May spoke on Friday in the aftermath of the British general election.

"The President has tremendous respect for Prime Minister May. That subject never came up on the call," the official told CNN.

A second senior US administration official also dismissed the Guardian report, acknowledging that Trump may never be popular in London and isn't fazed by that.

No official date was ever set for the visit. A Downing Street spokesman refused to comment on what he called "speculation about the contents of private phone conversation."

"The Queen extended an invitation to President Trump to visit the UK and there is no change to those plans," the spokesman added.

May extended the invite to Trump on behalf of the Queen just a week after his inauguration, a move that was heavily criticized in the UK.

Trump has become increasingly unpopular in Britain in recent days. His vociferous Twitter attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack last weekend drew condemnation from across the British political spectrum. Khan then called on the British government to cancel Trump's visit.

On Sunday, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn voiced his support for canceling Trump's trip.

Corbyn tweeted: "Cancellation of President Trump's State Visit is welcome, especially after his attack on London's mayor & withdrawal from #ParisClimateDeal."

The arrival of Trump in Britain anytime soon is unlikely to be welcomed by May, who is fighting for her political life following a disastrous general election Thursday that wiped out her party's majority in Parliament and prompted calls for her to resign.

In February this year, the British government formally rejected an online petition calling for Trump's state visit to the UK to be canceled or downgraded. The petition had garnered more than 1.8 million signatures. </s> LONDON — President Trump will delay his first state visit to the United Kingdom until 2018 because of concerns about protests reflecting his unpopularity with Britons, U.K. media reported Tuesday.

The visit had been expected this year, but a date was never set. Trump accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II when Prime Minister Theresa May traveled to Washington in January.

Trump is disliked by many Britons, for reasons that include his travel restrictions targeting six majority-Muslim countries and his public attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the Muslim to hold the office.

More than 2 million people have signed a petition calling on Parliament to block the visit.

Last month, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the state visit was still on following reports that Trump could scrap or postpone it due to concerns about mass protests. "We look forward to scheduling that trip," said Spicer.

Thousands of protesters rallied in London in February calling on May to withdraw the invitation for a state visit.

The Guardian and the BBC reported that May’s office and the White House were looking at dates in 2018.

Trump could still visit Britain this year but without the pomp and ceremony of an official state visit.

At the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, last week, Trump told May that he would be visiting Britain, and it was just a matter of arranging a date.

"I will be going to London," he said. Trump is traveling to Paris to mark Bastille Day on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and could later visit his ancestral home of Scotland, where he owns a golf resort ensnared in a local development dispute.

"An invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted, and the PM looks forward to welcoming President Trump to the U.K.,” May’s office said in a statement Tuesday. “We will set out a date for the visit in due course."

The U.K., which is exiting the European Union following a referendum last year, and the United States enjoy a long-standing “special relationship.”

"There's no country that could possibly be closer than our countries, for a long time," Trump said in Hamburg. "Prime Minister May and I have developed a very special relationship.”

He said that a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement will be "done very very quickly."
A petition, launched Sunday to cancel U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom later this year, tops 1 million signatures, passing the threshold for British Parliament debate. A British government spokesman says the state visit is going ahead as planned.