There was Barack Obama-fever in Westminster yesterday when the former US president dropped in at No 10 for an impromptu meeting with the Prime Minister. And Rishi Sunak wasn’t the only British politician trying to catch a little of his star power.
President Obama was also reunited with David Cameron, now Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, at a grand dinner held last night at Winfield House, the US Ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park. The pair were chummy when they served simultaneously as Potus and PM, shooting basketball hoops together and the like. But things got awkward toward the end of their tenures when Obama said Britain would be at “the back of the queue” for trade deals if we left the EU, in a clumsy bid to push the vote Cameron’s way, and suggested Britain was a “free rider” in Nato. They are now firmly back on good terms.
