US President Donald Trump is to visit the UK on Friday, July 13, after previously cancelling a planned trip amid claims he would face protests.

It will not be the full-blown state visit Mr. Trump was promised when Prime Minister Theresa May visited the White House in January last year.

But an invitation to a state visit still stands, the BBC understands.

He will hold bilateral talks with Mrs. May, Downing Street said, with further details to be “set out in due course”.

The July date follows the NATO summit which the president is expected to attend in Brussels on the previous day.

Downing Street and the White House had hoped to co-ordinate releasing details of the trip, but Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Sanders apparently let slip the information first.

UK ambassador Sir Kim Darroch confirmed the date on Twitter, saying he was “delighted” that Mr. Trump would visit the UK.

Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit Mr. Trump in the White House following his inauguration in January 2017.

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