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Donald Trump has reportedly cancelled plans to visit the UK next month.

The US President was expected to make his first trip to Britain since entering the White House in January last year, but Government officials have been told he has temporarily shelved the plans.

According to insiders, no new dates have been arranged - which is set to increase tensions within the Special Relationship between the UK and the US.

Trump had been expected to visit London next month to open the new £750million US embassy.

However, sources say the US leader has grown increasingly annoyed that “the red carpet treatment” was being scaled back as resentment against his arrival grew.

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Trump’s change of mind comes despite him telling Theresa May in December he would visit in the New Year.

It is understood his place in opening the embassy will now be taken by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, America’s most senior foreign diplomat.

The move comes just weeks after Trump sparked fury after retweeting anti-Muslim propaganda from far-right group Britain First.

Only last week it was claimed by US author Michael Wolff, whose book Fire and Fury has laid Trump’s first year in office bare, that the President would be furious if he wasn’t invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in May.

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Such a snub, the writer claimed, could see Trump reject a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK.

The prospect of mass protests was raised last month after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged his followers to turn out in force if Trump visited the UK to send him a "clear message".

More than a million people signed a petition last year calling for the state visit to be cancelled.

Officials have already moved into the new US embassy near Battersea Power Station in south London.

An official opening involving the Prime Minister and Trump would have dispelled any concerns about the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the US, and boosted hopes of a post-Brexit trade deal.

Downing Street refused to comment. A spokesman told the Mirror: "An invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted."