Obama the most '˜anti-British' president - Farage

Barack Obama has been branded the 'most anti-British' US president in history by Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
By The Newsroom
Published 15th Apr 2016, 13:24 BST
Updated 15th Apr 2016, 13:27 BST
UKIP MEP Diane James, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and UKIP London Mayoral Candidate Peter Whittle hand over a letter on the Government using tax payers' money to produce a pro-EU leaflet, at Downing Street.UKIP MEP Diane James, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and UKIP London Mayoral Candidate Peter Whittle hand over a letter on the Government using tax payers' money to produce a pro-EU leaflet, at Downing Street.
UKIP MEP Diane James, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and UKIP London Mayoral Candidate Peter Whittle hand over a letter on the Government using tax payers' money to produce a pro-EU leaflet, at Downing Street.

The prominent Leave campaigner took aim at Mr Obama ahead of the American president’s visit to Britain next week in which he is expected to express support for the Remain cause.

“Mercifully, this American president, who is the most anti-British American president there has ever been, won’t be in office for much longer, and I hope will be replaced by somebody rather more sensible when it comes to trading relationships with this country,” the Ukip leader said.

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Handing the pro-EU Government pamphlet back to Number 10 Downing Street in protest at £9.3 million of taxpayers’ money being used to distribute it nationally, Mr Farage challenged Prime Minister David Cameron to a face-to-face debate on the referendum issues.

“If this leaflet had genuinely contained objective facts, I simply would not have a problem with it. But when it tells me that if we vote to remain we will keep our own border controls, when the truth is now that we have an open door to 508 million people, this isn’t fact, it’s false assertion,”Mr Farage said.

“This needs debating properly. If Mr Cameron is so confident of what’s in this leaflet, I will debate it with him, head-to-head, any place, any time, anywhere. Every country in the world has access to the single market, the truth is Britain has a rotten deal.”

Mr Farage, who has publicly backed contentious Republican front-runner Donald Trump for the US presidency, is the latest leading Leave campaigner to attack Mr Obama.

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