As it happened: Donald Trump to visit Britain 'later this year'
All the latest updates from Davos, as they happened
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump's visit to the UK is back on the table for "later this year" after a meeting at Davos where he told Theresa May, "We love your country".
The US President sought to dispel a "false rumour" about strains on the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States in his first meeting with Ms May since the pair clashed over Mr Trump's decision to share anti-Muslim tweets from far-right group Britain First.
The Prime Minister used her keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to urge investors to pull funds from tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter if they fail to take down extremist content.
Also at Davos, Philip Hammond risked starting a row with Eurosceptic Conservatives by suggesting he hoped that change to Britain's trade relations with the EU after Brexit would be "very modest".
The Chancellor also admitted that MPs would not know "the full details" of Britain's future trade deal with the EU when they vote on Brexit later this year.
His comments came ahead of a speech by Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg - the new chairman of the European Research Group of backbench Tories - who was due to urge ministers not to be "timid and cowering" in their approach to EU withdrawal.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was due to host a Westminster rally demanding an emergency budget to help the NHS cope with the ongoing winter crisis.
See below for updates, as they happened.
The PM says tech giants need to take more responsibility on the content shared on their sites. No one wants to be the "first choice app for paedophiles" or terrorists, she says.
Shareholders should care about social impacts as business models are not sustainable if they do not have public support, she says.
May also points out the importance of ethical implications of AI.
That's from the PM's speech in Davos. She is expected to hold talks with Donald Trump in the margins of the summit this afternoon.
The decision to hire Sara Khan as the head of a new counter-extremism body has been widely criticised and described as “deeply disturbing” by leading figures in the British Muslim community.
The prominent campaigner will lead the newly-created Commission for Countering Extremism, which will produce an assessment of the threat extremism poses and the current response to it, the Home Office announced.
Because of a law the Tories repealed in 2013, the Presidents Club had no legal responsibility to protect their 'hostesses' from harassment, writes James Moore.
Read his column here:
Donald Trump and Theresa May have fended off a barrage of questions about the President's proposed state visit to the UK, during an unexpected and hugely awkward joint press conference at Davos.
During a short photo opportunity, Donald Trump told Ms May: "We love your country... there's nothing that would happen to you that we won't be there to fight for you, you know that."
Shaking hands before the cameras at the Swiss ski resort, Mr Trump said that they would "talk about" his mooted state visit to the UK. But neither he nor the Prime Minister gave any clue when it might take place.
Britain will have no right to even be in the room while EU laws are made, despite having to implement them in full during the Brexit transition period, according to leaked negotiating guidelines drawn up by Brussels.
Europe correspondent Jon Stone has filed this report:
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