Donald Trump will no longer visit the UK to attend the opening of the US embassy in London over fears he will not be made welcome, according to reports.
Sky News and the Daily Mail both report Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, will take his place at the event scheduled for the end of next month.
The White House has yet to respond.
Just last month the US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, said he expected the US President to open the new American embassy in Nine Elms “in the New Year”.
“I think he will come,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme at the time. “I am hoping he will come.”
The comments came after US-UK relations hit a low when Trump retweeted anti-Muslim tweets from a member of a far-right British group.
In an unprecedented condemnation of the White House, Theresa May criticised Trump directly when her official spokesman said the President was “wrong” to have supported Britain First’s attempts to “divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tension”.
Trump responded brusquely on Twitter.
Defending Trump, Johnson said the president did not take a “namby-pamby” approach to politics.
“Maybe he’ll ruffle feathers - there’s no question that maybe some feathers were ruffled,” he added.
May was the first foreign leader to visit the White House following Trump’s election.
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