‘People have spoken’, both Britain, EU ‘indispensable partners’: Obama President Barack Obama said on Friday the US relationship with both Britain and the European Union would endure in the wake of British voters’ decision to leave the EU. “The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision,” Obama said in a statement. “The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship,” Obama added. Britain’s decision at a referendum on Thursday forced the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealt the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. Obama, during a visit to London in April, had argued passionately against Brexit, or Britain’s exit from the EU, in an unusually strong intervention into British politics. He had warned that close NATO ally Britain would be “in the back of the queue” for a trade deal with th
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