AN MP warned the government they were making a “rod for their own back” by “inviting a fascist like Trump to come to Britain”.

Speaking in the House of Commons on a debate on the cost of policing the president’s visit, veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner asked Tory Home Office minister Nick Hurd to justify why the president had been welcomed to the UK.

“What on earth are the Government playing at by inviting a fascist like Trump to come to Britain and cause all the mayhem that we have heard about from Labour members, requiring police from every part of the British Isles? Do the Government, and in particular the Prime Minister, want to hold his hand again? Is that what it is all about? They are making a rod for their own back,” Skinner warned.

Hurd said the that Trump was “the democratically elected leader of the United States of America, which is historically, and currently, our most important ally”.

Every force in the UK is sending officers to look after the president, in what will be one of the biggest policing operations ever.

Named Operation Manifold, it’s expected to cost around £12 million – some £5m of which will be spent in Scotland.

Rest days have been cancelled, which could will likely have a huge knock-on effect for every force.

On Wednesday, it emerged that officers being sent to London were being accommodated in cots on squash courts, with 100 female officers with four toilets between them likely to be sleeping on mats tonight, and 300 male officers with five toilets between them, no access to power, and no hot running water.

There were complaints from officers about freezing cold showers, and cramped conditions.

Claire Laura, from West Midlands Police, shared a picture of the gym on social media and said: “Colleagues of mine have been deployed for some president visiting and this is their bed for three nights after working 12-hour shifts. Prisoners get better conditions. And their own toilet.

“Beyond disappointed with how colleagues are not being looked after! I would actually like to meet the individual who thought these conditions are acceptable?!”

Labour’s Louise Haigh said this was “no way to treat our overstretched officers”.

Calum Steele, the general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, pointed out conditions in Scotland would be better. He tweeted: “For any officers from England & Wales coming to Scotland on Mutual Aid to assist our @policescotland colleagues with the visit of @POTUS I can confirm that the accommodation will be of single room en-suite with clean towels & linen.”

Hurd said concerns had “been raised directly with Essex police”, who were responsible for the squash court accommodation.