US President Barack Obama today handed David Cameron an extraordinary pre-election endorsement, hailing the British Prime Minister as a 'great friend'. With less than four months until voters go to the polls in the tightest UK election for years, Mr Obama used a press conference in the White House to give the strongest possible backing to a fellow world leader. But behind the smiles there remains sharp differences over Mr Cameron's call for US web firms to do more to open up encrypted messages to security services in the wake of the atrocities in Paris last week. US President Barack Obama today handed David Cameron an extraordinary pre-election endorsement, hailing the British Prime Minister as a 'great friend'
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Obama hails Cameron as a 'great friend' after talks in the Oval Office
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Prime Minister boosted by high profile pre-election visit to Washington
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Blow for the Labour party, which is traditionally closer to the Democrats
A report from @placeholder spy chiefs today warned four in every five big firms in the UK last year experienced some sort of serious cyber security breach.