Barack Obama's UK state visit - day two live updates

Day two of Barack Obama's UK visit sees the US president in Downing Street talks, giving a speech to parliament and his wife reunited with London schoolgirls she first met in 2009

10.14am: Hillary Clinton and William Hague have just gone into Number 10 to join the Obama-Cameron talks. Nick Clegg is expected later.

9.50am: A brief wave outside Number 10 and then Obama and Cameron go inside, followed by a seemingly endless line of the US president's support staff filing into Downing Street. All those those cars Obama travels with aren't just for show (well, not just ...).

Cameron and Obama will have 20 minutes of face-to-face talks before being joined by the British National Security Council and others. Discussions are likely to cover Afghanistan and Libya, though it is unlikely Obama will agree to commit more resources to Libya or Cameron to slow down the British timetable for departure from Afghanistan.

9.43am: Obama is leaving Buckingham Palace for Downing Street in his armoured Cadillac.

8.50am: Oh dear. Eamonn Holmes is on Sky News talking about Michelle Obama and fashion. "Most women would cover that derriere," he tells Emily Sheffield, the deputy editor of British Vogue (and Samantha Cameron's sister). The two go on to discuss the clothes worn by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen. Holmes is careful what he says about SamCam.

8.45am: It's day two of Barack Obama's state visit to Britain. Yesterday the US president went to Buckingham Palace and looked at the art, exchanged gifts with his hosts, managed to get some US media attention by meeting William and Kate, lay a wreath at Westminster Abbey, high-fived David Cameron in a game of table tennis and rounded off the day with a Windsor lamb and a Sussex ros at a state banquet where guests included Tom Hanks.

Today is the real political business of the visit. He and Hillary Clinton will hold talks with David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and others where the focus is likely to be on joint US-UK security issues, then later this afternoon give a speech to both houses of parliament. His wife, Michelle, is hosting a barbecue with Samantha Cameron for military families before she goes to Oxford University to host an open day for pupils from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in north London. It's the same school she visited in 2009, telling pupils "I thought being smart was cooler than anything in the world" (also: "I do hugs"). Below is an approximate schedule.

Talks at 10 Downing Street
12.30pm: Downing Street press conference
Barbecue at No 10 hosted by Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron
2.15pm: Michelle Obama at Oxford University
4.30pm: Obama gives speech to parliament
Dinner at Winfield House


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