US President Barack Obama arrived in the UK yesterday, urging the British public to vote to ‘remain’ in the European Union on 23 June. Since his visit was announced, some critics have told him to ‘butt out’, while his appearance will be welcomed by the pro-EU campaigners. Obama reiterated his view that Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the US is best served by remaining in the union. However, Christian MP Steve Baker appeared to suggest Obama should look at American history before intervening in British politics. ‘Whenever a US president intervenes in our constitutional future, I always reread the US Declaration of Independence,’ he told the Independent. ‘We will solve peacefully at the ballot box the problem for which their nation fought a bloody war of insurrection,’ he added.