Tillerson to make first UK visit in solidarity over Manchester attack

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will make his first official visit to Britain on Friday in an expression of solidarity following the Manchester terror attack, the Foreign Office in London says.

The visit to meet his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, will be “an expression of UK-US solidarity following the terrorist attack in Manchester,” the Foreign Office says.

During the visit they will write messages of condolence for the victims of the attack and “hold talks on a range of foreign policy issues” before delivering short statements to media.

Relations between London and Washington have been strained by repeated leaks emanating from the United States of shared material from the British investigation into Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert, which killed 22 people.

— AFP