Theresa May has not been invited to a traditional annual end of year dinner with other European Union leaders at a major Brussels summit next week because Britain is leaving the EU.

The regular summit of European Union leaders will last only one day and will end with a dinner where Mrs May is not invited, the indicative programme of the meeting showed on Thursday.

At her last summit in October Mrs May and the other 27 leaders had dined on pan-fried scallops, lamb with roast fig, and iced vanilla parfait.

However next week Donald Tusk, the European Council president, invited leaders for a shorter one-day meeting to be held in Brussels.