A group of Labour MPs have signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to make sure Donald Trump does not “feel personally welcome” on his visit to the UK next week - and Stroud’s David Drew is one of them.

The letter, drawn up by Ipswich’s MP Sandy Martin, reads: "While the Government has argued, with some justification, that it is necessary for the United Kingdom to retain effective working relationships with the United States of America, and that we should therefore allow a visit of the President of the United States, we do not believe that that should extend to making the person who currently inhabits that office feel personally welcome.”

Mr Drew explained in a Facebook post on Friday, July 6: “With 21 other Labour MPs, I've written to the Prime Minister asking her not to afford him the cordial solemnity of a visit to the Queen, nor to be given joint photo opportunities."

“Diplomatic protocols aside, his behaviour, from his treatment of women and minority populations to the forcible separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border is justification enough.”

As well as a trip to Chequers, the Prime Minister's country estate, the US president is set to meet the Queen - most likely on Friday at Windsor Castle, according to the Guardian.

The Government has previously justified President Trump’s visit by pointing to the US and UK’s economic relationship, arguing that not inviting him would damage the national interest.

Boris Johnson, the UK’s foreign secretary, has also said the Queen is “well capable” of meeting President Trump.

“I think Her Majesty the Queen is well capable of taking this or any American President in her stride, as she has done over six remarkable decades,” he said during questions in the House of Commons on January 9.

“She has seen them come and she has seen them go.”