Donald Trump’s aides pushed to shield him from London’s angry crowds during his first state visit, Britain’s former Washington envoy Sir Kim Darroch has revealed.
Whitehall sources previously told The Telegraph that the date of Trump’s second state visit—and a decision to bar him from Britain’s House of Commons lectern—was pure politics as Labour MPs threatened to vacate the green benches in protest, and organizers feared TV shots of a half-empty chamber and the return of the blimp.
Now, speaking to the Financial Times, Darroch—who steered protocol talks for Trump’s 2019 trip—hinted that the U.S. president was aware little had changed from the first time around, when planners at the White House encouraged him to bypass parliament and allow almost no contact with the public.
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