USA: Politics and Government
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Prime Minister has received an invitation to the US President's inauguration.
Answered by Stephen Doughty
The Prime Minister congratulates President Trump on his inauguration and looks forward to working with him. The US is a dependable ally.
The precedent is that only Ambassadors based in Washington DC are invited to attend the inauguration ceremony as representatives of foreign governments. Individual MPs or notable figures from the UK and other countries may attend at the invitation of individual members of congress, or Party officials, but they will be attending in a personal capacity.
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