Obama tells Britain: EU membership makes you stand taller on the world stage

In agreeing to visit the UK midway through an election campaign, Barack Obama guaranteed controversy. As Tim Montgomerie makes clear in his Spectator cover piece this week, many Eurosceptics are angry at the thought of listening to a President with a clear track record of foreign policy failures. Boris Johnson, writing in The Sun this morning, was brimming with the zeal of a convert to the Brexit cause and borrowing from Obama’s trademark. He wrote: ‘Can we take back control of our borders and our money and our system of Government? Yes we can.’

But now Obama has arrived, what is his actual argument for urging Brits to remain in the EU? In the Daily Telegraph, covering for Fraser Nelson, he spells out several reasons including the fact that:

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‘This kind of cooperation – from intelligence sharing and counterterrorism to forging agreements to create jobs and economic growth – will be far more effective if it extends across Europe.