Almost half of Brits believe Donald Trump’s controversial state visit to the UK should go ahead, while just over a third think it should be cancelled
Just a third opposed the visit - despite widespread protests against President Trump and his Muslim travel ban earlier this week
ALMOST half of Brits think Donald Trump's controversial state visit should go ahead, a new poll has found.
Just a third opposed the visit - despite widespread protests against President Trump and his Muslim travel ban earlier this week.
The YouGov poll for suggested that the public were overall in agreement with Theresa May's position to offer the US President an official state visit.
49 per cent said they agreed it should go ahead, while 36 per cent said it should be cancelled.
But this contradicts a previous poll forwhich said that 49 per cent of people wanted it to be scrapped, and 38 per cent agreed that it should go ahead.
Mrs May said on Monday evening that the offer "still stands" for Mr Trump to have a full state visit to the UK later this year - thought to be in either June or October.
She said during a press conference in Northern Ireland: "I have issued that invitation for a state visit for President Trump to the United Kingdom and that invitation stands."
The PM said that "we have a different approach to these matters in the UK” but defended the right of President Trump to enact his campaign promises".
Today Mrs May came under some fire during Prime Ministers Questions about what she knew about President Trump's plans for a travel ban.
Hitting back at Mr Corbyn, she said: “Let’s just see what he would have achieved in the last week. Would he have been able to protect British citizens from the impact of the executive order?”
And today London Mayor Sadiq Khan came under pressure after former Ukip leader Nigel Farage called him a "hypocrite" for opposing President Trump's ban, but inviting ambassadors to City Hall to ban Israelis from the country.
Mr Khan asked for the leaders to join him in “speaking our against this ban” and urged them to condemn it for being “discriminatory, self-defeating and completely un-American”.
Mr Farage hit back on Twitter: "Why are there 11 diplomats from nations that ban Jewish Israelis at your meeting tonight?
"Why don’t you oppose them? Hypocrite."