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Obama plunges into Brexit debate to eurosceptic fury

– Churchill bust row –

Johnson, the leading face of the eurosceptic campaign, said it was “downright hypocritical” of the US to intervene as it would not accept the same limits on its own sovereignty as EU members do.

“For the United States to tell us in the UK that we must surrender control of so much of our democracy is a breathtaking example of the principle of do as I say, not as I do,” Johnson wrote in The Sun tabloid.

Johnson also repeated claims that “part-Kenyan” Obama may have removed a statue of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office at the start of his first term out of “ancestral dislike of the British Empire”.

The White House has previously rejected the allegation over the bust of the British wartime leader as “completely false”.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman also dismissed it Friday, saying: “Let’s focus on facts”.

Asked about the controversy at a campaign event, anti-EU UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage told AFP: “Obama doesn’t like the British very much. His grandfather grew up in Kenya, a former British colony. He’s still got some bad feelings about that.”

He added: “I would rather he butted out and wasn’t here saying what he’s saying… We don’t need his advice”.

The issue of Brexit is likely to surface again at talks with Cameron later on Friday, to be followed by a press conference.

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Ahead of the meeting, Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had lunch at Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth II, who turned 90 on Thursday, and her husband Prince Philip.

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