British politicians think Donald Trump may make a flying visit to the UK around the G20 Summit in Hamburg this week.

A leading UK politician with connections to the White House hinted a visit could come "much sooner than you think", pointing out that Mr Trump will be visiting Poland and Germany this week, before going to France for the Bastille day celebrations on 14 July.

A US source said there was a "four-day window" in his schedule between the G20, which takes place this week, and his invite to Paris in a fortnight.

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The White House has confirmed the President will start his European trip in Warsaw, where he will address 12 central European, Baltic and western Balkan leaders at the Three Seas Conference.

He will also give a "major speech" at Krasinski Square, the site of the 1944 Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation, and will lay out his vision of "the future of our transatlantic alliance and what that means for American security and American prosperity".


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He will then go to Germany to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel before both attend the G20 Summit in Hamburg. There, he has arranged bilateral meetings with Theresa May, President Xi of China, Mexican President Pena Nieto, President Abe of Japan, and, most intriguingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Chancellor Merkel wants to make the fight against climate change the central theme of the G20, arranging a European pre-summit last week to agree on the direction. Last month, in contrast, President Trump announced a US withdrawal from the Paris climate change accord.

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After the G20 Summit there are a few days before President Trump's agreed visit to Paris to accompany President Emmanuel Macron at the Bastille Day ceremony.

Some have speculated the US President could visit his golf resort in Scotland in that time, and perhaps pay a call to Downing Street or Chequers.

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Any trip to Britain would fall well short of the state visit that had been pencilled in for Autumn.

That visit was put on hold after the US President apparently expressed concern about demonstrators in a phone call with the PM.