![]() ![]() He has alienated our international allies. He got us into a war without any thought to getting out. At the open-air venue, a reconstruction of the one where many of William Shakespeare’s greatest works were performed, he watched a series of scenes from Hamlet to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death." George Bush is the reason George Bush is a very lame duck. Meanwhile, on the last day of his visit to London, which included attending a dinner for the Queen’s 90th birthday, Obama made an early-morning trip to the Globe theatre in Southwark. “To make the living wage work for British people, we need to be able to control the number of people coming in.” He wrote in the Daily Mail: “I cheered the introduction of the national living wage, but when take-home pay in Britain is already more than five times higher than in the poorest EU countries, such a jump in wages will surely lead to another stampede to our borders. Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, moved to switch attention to immigration as he insisted on Saturday that the government’s “national living wage” would provoke an influx of people from poorer EU nations. “I think the issue really is about democracy America guards its democracy very jealously and I think we should be entitled to do so as well.” “But I think there’s a weird paradox when the president of the United States, a country that would never dream of sharing its sovereignty over anything, instructs or urges us politely to get more embedded in the EU, which is already making 60% of our laws. ![]() On a visit to a fast-food restaurant in his Uxbridge constituency, Johnson said: “The crucial point is that I’m a big fan of Barack Obama – I was one of the first people to come out in favour of him ages ago. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said the London mayor’s remarks betrayed “dog-whistle racism”. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson was forced on to the defensive over his claim that Obama’s part-Kenyan heritage had given him anti-British sentiment and led him to remove a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. The UK is going to be in the back of the queue.” “And on that matter, for example, I think it’s fair to say that maybe at some point down the line there might be a UK-US trade agreement, but it’s not going to happen any time soon because our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done. I figured you might want to hear from the president of the United States what I think the United States is going to do. “So they are voicing an opinion about what the United States is going to do. “Particularly because my understanding is that some of the folks on the other side have been ascribing to the United States certain actions we will take if the UK does leave the EU – they say for example that ‘we will just cut our own trade deals with the United States’,” he said. On Friday, Obama used a press conference with the prime minister at the Foreign Office to explain why he had the “temerity to weigh in” on the EU referendum debate. So the threat to the UK is meaningless from a president who has not delivered even for those who aren’t ‘at the back of the queue’.” The energy minister Andrea Leadsom said: “The simple truth is that for years, the US and EU have failed to get a free trade deal organised. “It will be the next president, and the next Congress, who will be in charge of any trade arrangements.” So, to an extent, whatever he says today is largely irrelevant,” he told BBC2’s Newsnight. “We have a referendum at the end of June, presidential elections are in November, so whoever it is that will be at the helm of the United States, it won’t be Barack Obama. Raab’s stance was echoed by the Tory former defence secretary Liam Fox, who said Obama’s views would be irrelevant after the US presidential election. Barack Obama meets a pyjama-clad Prince George with his father, Prince William, at Kensington Palace. ![]()
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