Cancel King Charles’s ‘unthinkable’ journey to fulfill Donald Trump, Keir Starmer urged

Keir Starmer has been urged to step in and prevent King Charles visiting Washington DC after Donald Trump’s vicious attacks on the UK.

The monarch and Queen Camilla are set to meet the tempramental US President next month in a much-anticipated state visit. But calls for the visit to be cancelled or postponed are gathering pace as alarm grows over Trump’s continued attacks on the British government.

The monarch’s visit is understood to be under threat amid fears it would insensitive as war rages in the Middle East. On Sunday afternoon Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said: “Keir Starmer should advise the King that the state visit to the US scheduled for April should be called off. At a time when Trump has launched an illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills for British families, it’s clear this visit should not go ahead.

“A state visit from our King would be seen as yet another huge diplomatic coup for President Trump, so it should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.”

And Labour backbencher Rachael Maskell told The Mirror : “I think that visit should be put on hold at the moment to be quite honest. I’m not sure what would be gained from his going to the US at this point, unless it was to make a direct intervention on this current conflict, because this should be the only thing on anyone’s agenda.”

Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward told The Mirror: “Trump’s USA has become a rogue state, waging illegal wars abroad and unleashing terror on its streets through Trump’s ICE thugs.

“It is unthinkable that the King should grace Trump with a visit at this point.” Over the past week Trump has repeatedly exploded in anger over Mr Starmer’s initial refusal to allow UK bases to be used in the first wave of attacks on Iran. He has since allowed the US military to use British facilities after Iranian missiles rained down on British allies and RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was attacked.

In his latest diatribe on Saturday night, Trump wrote: “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

“That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

Last week he angrily told reporters of the Prime Minister: “This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with.”

The two leaders spoke on the phone on Sunday, Downing Street said in a statement. A readout of the call said: “The Prime Minister spoke with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, this afternoon.

“The leaders began by discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the military cooperation between the UK and US through the use of RAF bases in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region.

“The Prime Minister also shared his heartfelt condolences with President Trump and the American people following the deaths of six US soldiers.

“They looked forward to speaking again soon.” Defending Mr Starmer on Sunday morning, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said joining Trump’s initial strikes was not in Britain’s interests.

She said: “The US president has a responsibility to do what he thinks is right in the US national interest. The UK Prime Minister has the responsibility to do what he thinks is right in the UK’s national interest.

“That means sometimes we will disagree, and there are many areas where our security partnership remains incredibly strong, and I have seen myself the close intelligence cooperation the close military cooperation.

“But there will also be areas where we disagree. So, for example, we had disagreed on Greenland. We disagreed on the initial strikes that took place and whether the UK should provide the basing support for them.

“But that is a legitimate thing for the UK Prime Minister to do.”