Michelle Obama leaves the House of Commons in a motorcade during an unofficial visit to London. Photo: Getty Images
The Telegraph reports that...
During her visit on Monday, America's First Lady was pictured clutching a rather unusual souvenir – a publication bearing a picture of Michael Martin, the former Speaker of the Commons. Mr Martin was forced to resign last month following his mishandled response to the MPs' expenses scandal.
Quite why Mrs Obama was given the publication, which she was pictured holding as she was driven away from the Houses of Parliament, remains a mystery. The wife of President Obama was in London on a private visit with their daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, eight.
They stayed on in Paris for sightseeing on Sunday, while the President returned to the US following his tour of Europe. It is thought they flew into London by private jet early on Monday morning, before paying a brief visit to Westminster in the afternoon.
Later, Mrs Obama visited The Audley pub in Mayfair, where regulars saw her disappear into an upstairs room before leaving with her daughters. On Saturday the whole family went sightseeing in Paris, visiting Notre Dame, the Pompidou Centre and a restaurant near the Eiffel Tower. Thousands gathered there to cheer on President Obama and his family.
Odd. Up to no good, no doubt! Was she been sent by 'the One' to plead to the Labour Party on behalf of the wounded incumbent of No.10, because the Leader of the Never-Again-to-be-Free World fears a UK prime minister more popular than Gordon Brown might take away some of his own airtime in the adoring gaze of the liberal mass media?
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