Cameron 'personally requested Obama's back of the queue Brexit warning'

[Colemans Left Hook]

As the incoming of "Agent India" dawns ( the bet on Boris has been hedged by the way) Just came across this about "Agent Cameron"

of "we are all in it together (until I do A snagglepuss- exit stage left) fame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qFxTTi8q0

it seems I missed it first time around

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An ex-White House adviser says the former PM asked Mr Obama to be pessimistic about a trade deal in April 2016.

By Greg Heffer, political reporter
Monday 2 July 2018 14:19, UK

A former key aide to Barack Obama has confirmed David Cameron personally asked the US president to warn Britain would be "back of the queue" for a post-Brexit trade deal.

Ben Rhodes, an ex-White House adviser, admitted Mr Obama's dramatic intervention in the EU referendum campaign came at the personal request of the former prime minister.

In April 2016, two months before the Brexit vote, the former president used a visit to London to caution the UK would not be a priority for a trade deal with America if British voters chose to quit the EU.

Mr Obama warned: "The UK is going to be in the back of the queue."

At the time, the remarks were furiously rejected by Brexit campaigners, who suspected co-ordination between 10 Downing Street and the Obama camp.


They pointed to the president's choice of the word "queue", rather than the typically American usage of "line", as evidence of British involvement in scripting Mr Obama's comments.

Mr Rhodes, who recently released a memoir of his time working for Mr Obama, has now revealed that was the case

[Glyn_Wigley]

Well, thank God it wasn't true.

[BobG]