US President-elect Donald Trump may be offered a second state visit to the UK, as it turned out, due to the change of government and monarch since his last invitation, The Guardian reports, UNN writes.
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Trump was hosted at Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth during a state visit in 2019, when Theresa May was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
No other world leader has ever been received twice on an official state visit, although French President Jacques Chirac was received by the Queen in 1996 and 2004, the latter of which was called a "special visit" dedicated to the centenary of the Entente.
But government sources said that "Trump's second state visit should not be ruled out because of three differences compared to 2019 - the break between his presidencies, the change of government from Conservatives to Labor, and the new monarch, Charles III," the newspaper writes.
At the same time, the newspaper writes, government sources denied Nigel Farage's statements that the spokesperson for the House of Commons, Lindsey Goyle, has already sent an invitation to the US president-elect to speak in both houses of the British Parliament.
His predecessor, John Bercow, said he would block any invitation to Trump to speak in parliament during his state visit in 2019.
According to the publication, it is not customary for US presidents to ask to speak in the British Parliament during state visits. The last US president to do so was Barack Obama. Joe Biden, as US President, did not even receive a full state visit organized by the monarch, although his presidency included the last year of the pandemic, the death of the Queen and the subsequent coronation of Charles III.