Plans to invite German president to wreath-laying at Cenotaph

No 10 memo reveals proposal as part of events marking 100 years since end of first world war

Theresa May's top military adviser has asked for Germany's head of state to be invited to attend this year's Remembrance Day commemorations at the Cenotaph in London, a memo photographed in Downing Street reveals.

The German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, had already been invited to attend a service in Westminster Abbey to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, it suggests.