Trump UK visit live: Four arrested over Epstein images on Windsor Castle after US president lands in Britain

President Donald Trump offered a few works to reporters as he landed in the UK at London Stansted on Tuesday night, saying: “Tomorrow is going to be a very big day.”

Greeting the press, he praised US ambassador Warren A Stephens for “doing a great job”.

The US president also said he “loves” the UK.”I have a lot of things here that warm my heart,” he said. “I want to tell you. It’s a very special place.”

The American leader is being feted with a stay in Windsor Castle, where he will be hosted by the King and treated to a ceremonial welcome on Wednesday and, later, a lavish state banquet.

The Liberal Democrats said the Labour government had “thrown in the towel” to the US president, who “reneged on” the original agreement for US steel tariffs to fall to zero as part of the British-American trade pact.

Deputy party leader Daisy Cooper said: “It looks like the government has thrown in the towel instead of fighting to stand up for the UK steel industry.

“We were told US tariffs on UK steel would be lifted completely, now that’s turned out to be yet another promise Trump has reneged on.

“It just shows Trump is an unreliable partner and that rewarding a bully only gets you so far.

“The best way to protect our economy is to stand with our allies in Europe and the Commonwealth and end Trump’s damaging trade war for good.”

US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were greeted by foreign secretary Yvette Cooper as well as RAF personnel from The King’s Colour Squadron forming a guard of honour as he arrived on Tuesday evening at London Stansted airport.

Mr Trump and his wife, Melania, later travelled onwards to Winfield House, the official residence of the US ambassador in Regent’s Park.

Before arriving in Britain, he hailed the “great honour” of being hosted by the King at “the ultimate” Windsor Castle for his unprecedented second state visit.

On Wednesday, Mr Trump will visit the royal residence, where he will be treated to a ceremonial welcome and a lavish state banquet, before meeting Sir Keir Starmer at the prime minister’s country estate, Chequers, on Thursday.

There are no public-facing engagements set for the president, with thousands expected to take part in major protests against his two-day stay.

A proposed deal to eliminate US tariffs on British steel has been shelved, it has emerged on the eve of Donald Trump’s second state visit.

The UK is understood to have paused its push to cut the levy, which stands at 25 per cent, to zero as originally agreed earlier this year.

Mr Trump had hinted at possible tariff relief for British steel as he boarded Air Force One earlier on Tuesday, but Downing Street would not be drawn on the scope for movement ahead of the two-day stay.

Mr Trump told reporters he was “into helping” Britain on refining the transatlantic trade deal signed earlier this year, which slashed trade barriers on a number of goods but failed to agree terms for steel.

“We’ve made a deal, and it’s a great deal, and I’m into helping them,” he said.

“They’d like to see if they could get a little bit better deal. So, we’ll talk to them.”

Asked on Tuesday afternoon whether any progress was expected in cutting the levy, the prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “There’s a range of things that we’re going to discuss with the President… we’ve obviously got a landmark trade deal.

“(We will) continue to discuss with them how to take that further. But, for obvious reasons, I’m not going to get ahead of those outcomes.”

Donald Trump’s visit to the UK has already generated protests, even though it has barely gotten underway.

Several dozen anti-Trump activists gathered in Windsor on Tuesday evening, ahead of the US president’s visitor to Windsor Castle tomorrow.

“I am beyond disappointed,” Michelle, 32, told AFP. “Donald Trump as a person is… fuelling a lot of the far-right protests that we’re already having here.

“It’s a humongous problem.”

“We are deeply unhappy with our prime minister, Keir Starmer, humiliating us by rolling out the red carpet for this far-right president who has slapped tariffs on our economy,” Seema Syeda, a member of the Stop Trump Coalition, told NPR.

As the UK rolls out the red carpet for Donald Trump during his state visit, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has voiced some pointed opinions upon the arrival of the US president.

Referring to the recent “Unite the Kingdom” march in London organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, Khan accused “President Donald Trump and his coterie” of having “perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years” in an op-ed in The Guardian.

Khan added that while he understood the need to retain strong US-UK ties, the longstanding alliance sometimes “means being a critical friend and speaking truth to power – and being clear that we reject the politics of fear and division.”

The mayor urged leaders to show Trump why the US must back Ukraine, stop “tariff wars that are tearing global trade apart,” and “end Israel’s horrific onslaught on Gaza.”

Four people were arrested on Tuesday over the projection of images of Donald Trump alongside sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle, where the US president is set to be hosted by King Charles during his state visit to Britain.

Trump arrived late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit, and will be greeted by Charles on Wednesday for a day of pomp at Windsor Castle, about 25 miles west of London.

Earlier on Tuesday, protesters unfurled a massive banner featuring a photograph of Trump and Epstein near Windsor Castle, and later projected several images of the two onto one of the castle’s towers.

The police said in a statement four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications following an “unauthorised projection” at Windsor Castle, which they described as a “public stunt”.

The four remain in custody.

Campaigners from Fossil Free London shouted “how many will you kill if you drill, baby, drill” – mocking one of the US president’s famous sayings – and held up banners reading “oily money kills” as drums were beaten.

Male guests appeared to force the demonstrators out of the dining hall – bedecked with formal framed portraits – amid shouting.

Two men carried out a demonstrator by his hands and feet. Other guests started filming the disruption on their mobile phones.

Jane Dalton and David Maddox have the story.

Donald Trump arrived in the UK on Tuesday evening to kick off his state visit, but the US president has largely kept the focus on American issues since he touched down.

Other than a few brief comments about his admiration for the UK to waiting reporters, the Republican spent the night sounding off on a variety of US-centric news stories.

On his Truth Social platform, he posted about the recent elevation of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral primary, his feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom, and a sprawling lawsuit the US president has launched against The New York Times.

The chairman of Republicans Overseas UK has called on US President Donald Trump to end the Republican Party’s 100-year-old partnership with the Conservative Party and instead endorse Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Greg Swenson told the PA news agency ahead of a reception and dinner at the Windsor Guildhall that he tried to “give my best advice to the Tories”.

“I think the only way we can replicate what’s happened in America with fixing illegal migration, fixing the energy crisis, fixing cost of living, and also fixing the censorship crisis, is something like the Maga (Make America Great Again) movement and the Maga invasion, which is Reform, or parties that are similar to it,” Mr Swenson told the PA news agency.

He added: “I do think it’s time for a Maga movement here – make Britain great again – and that can’t be done well, so far, it hasn’t been really executed by the Tories.”