
Britain has rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump today as the US President begins a two-day visit to London in the crucial run-up to the December 14 general election.

Trump is in the UK for a NATO summit and Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keeping his distance, amid nervousness in Tory HQ that the US President will says something controversial and hurt the PM's campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn is going all out to 'weaponise' the US President's arrival and yesterday released a video blaming Britain's close relationship with the US for the London Bridge terror attacks.

Trump will meet NATO secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this morning, before a fundraiser in Park Lane and meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

This afternoon he will have tea with Prince Charles and Camilla before a reception for NATO leaders at Buckingham Palace and a reception at Downing Street.

Ahead of the meeting, Mr Johnson appealed for unity among the leaders of the 29 member states - also including Germany's Angela Merkel, Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - amid differences over Syria

US President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania stepped off the plane in London tonight

President Trump is pictured above after he arrived at Stansted Airport this evening ahead of the Nato summit

He arrived with his wife and First Lady Melania (pictured above together) as Nato marks its 70th birthday

Trump arrived in the UK this evening and previously stated he didn't want Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister

A video posted on the Labour leader's Twitter feed shows flowers beside the roadsign in the capital, to a soundtrack of Mr Corbyn condemning Western wars and emotional music

The Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will formally greet NATO leaders at this evening's reception, which marks 70 years of the alliance.

Charles and the Monarch will then join the politicians for a group photograph.

Today's schedule for Trump's NATO visit 9:10am One-on-one meeting with NATO's Secretary-General 9:30am Working breakfast with NATO Secretary-General 11:00am Trump departs Winfield House to the InterContinental Hotel on London's Park Lane 11:15am Trump arrives at the InterContinental London Park Lane 11:30am Roundtable with supporters 12:05pm Trump departs InterContinental for Winfield House 12.20pm Trump arrives at Winfield House 2pm Bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron 2.20pm Macron meeting opens to press 3.30pm Bilateral meeting with Candian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 4.55pm Trump and First Lady depart Winfield House for Clarence House 5:10pm Trump and First Lady arrive at Clarence House 5:15pm Couple have tea with Prince Charles and Camilla 5:50pm Couple depart Clarence House for Buckingham Palace 6:00pm Trump and First Lady attend NATO leaders' Reception hosted by Her Majesty The Queen 7:35pm Trump departs Palace for 10 Downing Street 7:40pm Trump and Melania arrive at Downing Street 7:45pm Couple attend NATO leaders' reception hosted by PM Boris Johnson 9:05pm Couple depart Downing Street for Winfield House 9.30pm Couple return to Winfield House Advertisement

The royals will be out in force for the event, including the Duchess of Cambridge, the Earl of Wessex, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra.

Prince William is away in the Middle East, while Prince Harry and wife Meghan are on a six-week break from royal engagements over the festive period.

Prince Andrew, who stepped down from public duties after his disastrous Newsnight interview about his association with convicted padeophile Jeffrey Epstein, is also not attending.

The President's arrival yesterday came at the end of a day that saw complaints both main UK political parties have exploited the deadly London Bridge attack.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been desperately trying to 'weaponise' the Prime Minister's ties to the US president as he tries to overhaul the Tory advantage in the polls.

In an extraordinary campaign video yesterday, he effectively blamed the Special Relationship for the London Bridge terror attack.

The footage showed images including flowers next to the road sign in the capital, with a soundtrack of Mr Corbyn condemning Western aggression for fuelling terrorism and emotional music.

Mr Corbyn tweeted the video along with a message that Mr Johnson should 'stop clinging on to Donald Trump's coat-tails'.

The Labour leader has a long record of opposing US influence throughout 30 years as a relatively obscure Labour backbencher.

He has previously insisted the NATO military alliance should have been scrapped decades ago, dismissed Britain's 'global role', and said nuclear weapons should be unilaterally given up.

Last week MailOnline highlighted a 2014 article by Mr Corbyn's closest aide, Seamus Milne, branding NATO a 'colonial expeditionary force' and calling for US bases in the UK to be closed and personnel sent home.

Last night the Labour leader wrote to Mr Trump demanding that he guarantees the US will not try to push NHS medicine prices up through a post-Brexit trade deal.

But Mr Corbyn is facing questions over leaked trade documents which experts said had hallmarks of a Russian fake news campaign.

He published the 451 pages of unredacted, classified files last week to back up his claims of a Tory plot to sell off the NHS. The documents were dismissed as not showing what he said they did.

And experts yesterday claimed the leak resembled a disinformation campaign uncovered this year which originated in Russia.

Researchers at Oxford and Cardiff universities, the Atlantic Council think-tank and social media analytics firm Graphika said the manner in which the files were first leaked online mirrored a campaign called Secondary Infektion.

Secondary Infektion, uncovered by the Atlantic Council in June, used fabricated or altered documents to spread fake news across at least 30 online platforms. It stemmed from a network of social media accounts which Facebook said 'originated in Russia'.

Experts warned the similarities with the campaign and the manner in which the NHS documents were published could signal foreign interference in Britain's election.

Ben Nimmo, head of investigations at Graphika, said: 'It's on the same set of websites [as Secondary Infektion], it's using the same types of accounts and making the same language errors. It's either the Russian operation or someone trying hard to look like it.'

A Labour spokesman said: 'Neither the UK nor the US government have denied their authenticity. Given what they reveal, it's not surprising that there are attempts to muddy the waters to cover up what has been exposed.'

Writing to Trump, Mr Corbyn said: 'As you will know, the potential impact of any future UK-US trade agreement on our National Health Service and other vital public services is of profound concern to the British public.

'A critical issue in this context is the cost of drugs to our NHS. The cost of patented drugs in the US is approximately 2.5 times higher than in the UK, and the price of the top 20 medicines is 4.8 times higher than in the UK.

'Any increase in the NHS drugs bill would be an unacceptable outcome of US-UK trade negotiations.

'Yet you have given a number of clear and worrying indications that this is exactly what you hope to achieve.'

He told Trump it would 'go a long way to reassuring the British public' if he rowed back from the NHS-related negotiation aims seen in the leaked civil service paper on the UK-US talks.

Mr Corbyn sent a letter with similar demands to the Prime Minister on Monday, the eve of the NATO summit.

Trump has previously claimed it would be 'so bad' for Britain if Mr Corbyn was to become Prime Minister.

The US leader told Nigel Farage's LBC radio programme in October: 'Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he'd be so bad, he'd take you on such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places.'

Meanwhile yesterday Boris Johnson defended launching a crackdown on the treatment of convicted terrorists after the rampage by 28-year-old Usman Khan, who was out of prison on licence.

Former University of Cambridge students Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, were fatally stabbed during a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.

Khan was on licence and wearing an electronic monitoring tag when he launched the attack, which injured three others, after he was invited to the prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday afternoon.

The event was organised held by Learning Together, a programme associated with Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology.

Jack Merritt (pictured centre) was one of the victims of the London Bridge terror attack. His father David (left) has condemned politicisation of the attack

Speaking to reporters in Southampton yesterday, the PM rejected the idea that his action was a knee-jerk response.

'Look at my 2012 manifesto on crime ... I've campaigned for a long time for longer sentences for serious and violent offenders,' he said.

Mr Johnson said it was 'probably clear from the outset' that Khan was 'too tough to crack' when it came to rehabilitation.

President's itinerary for three-day UK visit Today : Mr Trump will attend a reception at Buckingham Palace with the Queen to welcome Nato leaders Tomorrow : Nato summit takes place at the Grove Hotel, near Watford Advertisement

'What I'm saying is our job is to keep the public safe and that's what we want to do,' he added.

Meanwhile demonstrations are planned at Buckingham Palace today to coincide with the reception for Mr Trump and other world leaders in the grand State Rooms.

Among the protesters will be NHS nurses, doctors and workers campaigning over potential risks to the NHS from a future US-UK trade deal.

Nick Dearden, from Global Justice Now, said: 'Tuesday's demonstration will be led by nurses and doctors - to symbolise the millions of people who will stand up for our health service against a US president who simply represents the biggest, greediest corporate interests in the world.'

Stand Up To Trump, Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) will be among the groups taking part.

Lindsey German, from Stop the War Coalition, said: 'We need an alternative to war, militarism and racism - an anti-war government and a mass demonstration against Trump and Nato.'

CND general secretary Kate Hudson described Nato as 'a hugely dangerous and destructive nuclear-armed alliance with the capacity to destroy all forms of life many times over'.

She added: 'This is no time to celebrate and welcome it to London.'

Mr Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC radio programme in October: 'Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he'd be so bad, he'd take you on such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places.'

Corbyn says terrorists should serve 'significant proportion' of sentences Jeremy Corbyn is under pressure over his suggestion that convicted terrorists should 'not necessarily' serve their whole prison sentences. Pressed during a campaign event at London's Finsbury Park station over whether released terror convicts should be reassessed and serve their full sentences, the Labour leader said it is 'quite right to look at every case'. He said: 'I think terrorists should be sentenced, as they are, and they should be released as and when they have completed a significant proportion of their sentence and they've undergone rehabilitation and they are considered safe to the public as a whole. 'I do think that continuing with the process allows people to be released ahead of final complete of their sentence if they've been rehabilitated and they have been suitably assessed and they are very strictly monitored when they come out - I think that must be the correct way of doing things. 'There are enormous questions to be learned from this terrible event that happened last week and that is, what happened in the prison with this particular individual, what assessment was made of his psychological condition before he was released and also what supervision and monitoring he was under after coming out?' Advertisement

Boris Johnson defended launching a crackdown on the treatment of convicted terrorists after the rampage by 28-year-old Usman Khan, who was out of prison on licence.

Former University of Cambridge students Saskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, were fatally stabbed during a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.

Khan was on licence and wearing an electronic monitoring tag when he launched the attack, which injured three others, after he was invited to the prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday afternoon.

The event was organised held by Learning Together, a programme associated with Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology.

Speaking to reporters in Southampton yesterday, the PM rejected the idea that his action was a knee-jerk response.

'Look at my 2012 manifesto on crime ... I've campaigned for a long time for longer sentences for serious and violent offenders,' he said.

Mr Johnson said it was 'probably clear from the outset' that Khan was 'too tough to crack' when it came to rehabilitation.

'What I'm saying is our job is to keep the public safe and that's what we want to do,' he added.

Meanwhile demonstrations are planned at Buckingham Palace today to coincide with the reception for Mr Trump and other world leaders in the grand State Rooms.

Among the protesters will be NHS nurses, doctors and workers campaigning over potential risks to the NHS from a future US-UK trade deal.

Nick Dearden, from Global Justice Now, said: 'Tuesday's demonstration will be led by nurses and doctors - to symbolise the millions of people who will stand up for our health service against a US president who simply represents the biggest, greediest corporate interests in the world.'

Stand Up To Trump, Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) will be among the groups taking part.

Lindsey German, from Stop the War Coalition, said: 'We need an alternative to war, militarism and racism - an anti-war government and a mass demonstration against Trump and Nato.'

CND general secretary Kate Hudson described Nato as 'a hugely dangerous and destructive nuclear-armed alliance with the capacity to destroy all forms of life many times over'.

She added: 'This is no time to celebrate and welcome it to London.'

Mr Trump tweeted a video of take-off and referred to the House impeachment report on him which will be unveiled in the US today behind closed doors for key politicians