Planned state visit: Scottish politician: withdraw invitation to Trump

A leading politician of the Scottish National Party SNP has called for the British invitation to withdraw to US President Donald Trump. “Strongers should better stop kneeling and withdrawing the offer of a state visit,” wrote Stephen Flynn, the SNP parliamentary group leader in the British parliament on X.

The British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer had Trump an invitation from King Charles III this week during his visit to Washington. to a historic second state visit to the United Kingdom.

Unlike the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj a day later, Straßer had an extremely harmonious meeting with the US President. The Brit tries to position himself as a bridge builder over the Atlantic. For Sunday he invited to a Ukraine summit with Selenskyj and European heads of state and government.

What was considered a successful attempt to vote for Trump mildness threatens to become a strain after the scandal between Selenskyj and the US President. Already during previous visits by Trump during his first term, there were considerable protests in Great Britain. The influential British LBC journalist Lewis Goodall wrote on X that the offer for the state visit was now a “nightmare” after the cameras held in front of running cameras.