Donald Trump UK visit: Marine One touches down at Buckingham Palace

Donald Trump is at Buckingham Palace for lunch with the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Harry and other senior royals today as Britain rolled out the red carpet for the leader of the free world. Mr Trump and his wife Melania landed at Her Majesty’s central London home while his visibly excited daughter Ivanka peered from a window to watch thousands gathered outside in the early summer sunshine. At 9am he landed in London for his long-awaited state visit and his first act on British soil was to launch a Twitter assault on Sadiq Khan calling the London Mayor ’dumb’, ’nasty’ and ’a stone cold loser’. The President eviscerated Mr Khan on social media as Air Force One landed at Stansted Airport this morning saying he has ’done a terrible job as Mayor of London’ and ’should focus on crime in London, not me’. Mr Trump had already weighed in on Brexit, the Tory leadership battle and his security concerns over Huawei as he took off from America and used his arrival in the UK to vent his fury over Mr Khan’s description