Barack Obama has visited Downing Road for a shock assembly at No 10 with Rishi Sunak.
The previous US president – who served within the White Home between 2009 and 2017 – waved at reporters outdoors earlier than he entered the prime minister’s residence for a beforehand undisclosed non-public assembly at 3pm.
A Downing Road spokesperson insisted the go to was an “casual courtesy drop in” as a part of the previous president’s go to to London.
They added: “President Obama’s group made contact and clearly the prime minister was very completely satisfied to to fulfill with him and focus on the work of the Obama Basis.”
Mr Obama left No 10 after round an hour following a gathering with Mr Sunak.
The previous US president stated “I’m tempted” when requested questions by the media as he re-emerged and bought right into a Vary Rover automotive with Jane D Hartley, the US ambassador to the UK, simply after 4pm.
The Barack Obama Basis is a nonprofit organisation centered on social mobility that was based by the previous president again in 2014.
The final time Mr Obama visited Downing Road was eight years in the past in 2016.
The previous president met with then prime minister David Cameron at Quantity 10 for talks forward of the Brexit vote.
He warned the UK can be on the “again of the queue” for US commerce offers if it left the European Union.
The 2 leaders additionally held a joint information convention on the Overseas Workplace. Mr Obama stated the US “desires Britain’s affect to develop – together with inside Europe”.
The talks come as Mr Sunak stated he has “confidence for the long run: as he battles to shore up his place as prime minister following rumours that his get together is seeking to change him forward of a basic election.
Mr Sunak’s failure to show across the Tories’ opinion ballot deficit has fuelled hypothesis about Conservative MPs contemplating changing him with Commons Chief Penny Mordaunt in an try to keep away from a basic election catastrophe.
Enterprise secretary Kemi Badenoch instructed plotters searching for to oust the prime minister to “cease messing round” and finish the “Westminster psychodrama”.
Ms Badenoch recommended “one or two MPs” are behind the Westminster rumours and so they shouldn’t be allowed to “dominate the information narrative”.
She instructed BBC Breakfast: “I am positive if Penny was right here, she can be distancing herself from these feedback.”
Ms Mordaunt has not publicly commented on studies a couple of bid to raise her to the Tory management, however a supply near her rejected them as “nonsense”.