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Taxpayers will pick up a bill of more than £3 million for the policing of Donald Trump’s visit to Britain, the Mirror can reveal.

The Metropolitan Police spent £2.87 million safeguarding the President in London during his three day visit, with a force of up to 3,000 officers deployed each day.

And that figure doesn’t include the President’s red-carpet visit to Blenheim Palace or his visit to his Scottish golf course.

It’s almost double the £1.66 million spent policing President Obama’s state visit in 2016.

London Labour MP David Lammy said: “When we look back on Theresa May’s time in office, one of many great mistakes will be rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump, at such great expense to the tax payer.

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“This racist, sexist, neo-Nazi sympathiser is a disgrace to the office he holds, and the great country he serves.

“Trump was never welcome in our country, as the 250,000 protestors who turned out in Trafalgar Square made clear.”

The figures, released under Freedom of Information laws, include protecting Trump while he slept at Winfield House, the US Ambassador’s residence in London’s Regent Park.

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It also covers his visit to Windsor Castle, where he met the Queen.

And it includes policing of the President’s arrival on Air Force One at Stansted Airport.

The figure is likely to soar higher once the cost of security at the Blenheim Palace dinner held in his honour are finalised by Thames Valley police.

And the Treasury has promised to meet up to £5 million of the cost of policing his two night stay at his luxury golf resort in Scotland.

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The figures do not include the cost of policing the huge protest in Trafalgar Square against the President’s working visit to the UK.

Trump’s visit was designed to avoid London itself as much as possible, in order to avoid the protest which saw as many as 250,000 people descend on the capital.

Officially, it was a ‘working visit’ - which would normally be shorn of the pomp and ceremony of a full scale state visit like the one Mr Obama enjoyed in 2016.

But Mr Trump still enjoyed tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle, an honour rarely bestowed on leaders during working visits.

And on his arrival in the UK Theresa May greeted the President with a black tie gala dinner at Blenheim Palace, with a full military band reception.

Thames Valley police have not released the cost of policing the Blenheim Palace visit, which attracted hundreds of protesters, because overtime payments for officers have not been finalised.

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Some 1,363 Metropolitan Police officers and staff were involved in the operation to protect the President on when he arrived in London on Thursday, July 12.

The following day, Friday 13th, 2,535 officers and staff were involved, with 1,958 working on Saturday 14th, when Trump departed for Scotland.

The figures include officers and staff time, vehicles both owned by the Police and hired in specially and infrastructure.

It also includes catering, hotels and staff overtime claimed to date.

So far, officers have claimed £862,196 of overtime pay for the weekend - and they still have another two months to submit their claims.

The total cost of policing President Obama’s visit, which involved a total of 4,268 officers, was £1,668,650.