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donald trumpPROUD.. Mr Trump and wife Melania with the Queen during their visit last year (Image: AFP)

Some hope he will visit local RAF bases, others want him to play a round of golf, and there is even a call for him to address voters from the steps of a town hall. Conservative and DUP MPs who would love to welcome the controversial billionaire to their seats on his three-day UK visit - due to begin on June 3 - are excited by the opportunity to put the global spotlight on their constituencies. Leading Brexiteer Priti Patel says Mr Trump would receive an "Essex welcome" in her Witham constituency.

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The former international development secretary says: "I would take him to Marks Hall Estate and Arboretum because in the 1940s it became a base for fighter and bomber forces, hosting RAF squadrons and US air force divisions.

"Those divisions took part in Operation Varsity, the Allied airborne assault over the Rhine river. The casualties were devastating and in remembrance Marks Hall Estate created a memorial site within the arboretum, which includes an obelisk and 1/10 scale replica of the runway layout of the old airfield.

"It is a beautiful place and poignant reminder to those who fought for our freedom, as well as the special relationship between our two great nations."

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns wants to see the president in her Yorkshire seat, Morley and Outwood.

donald trumpThe baby Trump balloon floats in the middle of crowds holding anti-Trump signs in July 2018 (Image: getty)

priti patelTHE ONLY way is essex... Priti Patel wants to see Mr Trump (Image: Jonathan Brady)

"I am sure Yorkshire folk would appreciate Donald Trump's no-nonsense approach to politics," she says. "I would do some old-fashioned outdoor face-to-face meetings and I would ask him to address the people of Morley on the steps of the town hall. I'm sure he would go down a storm!"

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith hopes to welcome him to Chingford and Woodford Green, where he would invite him to plant a tree in the arboretum of a children's hospice.

And ex-Brexit minister and Clwyd West Tory MP David Jones wants to bring him to Ruthin, county town of Denbighshire, "one of the most beautiful and historic towns in the country".

Scarborough and Whitby Tory MP Robert Goodwill hopes to take the president for "mandatory fish and chips" then visit RAF Fylingdales, the early-warning station "where US and UK personnel work together to keep the

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