A joint full-scale press conference for President Obama and Gordon Brown has been cancelled. Apparently the Rose Garden, where they would have met with the press, is blanketed with snow. But no reason was given as to why a press conference couldn’t happen inside the White House. Instead of a press conference, a half-hour meeting in the Oval Office will be preceded by a “pool spray” – a few shouted questions from pool reporters during a photo-opportunity with no substantive discussion.

Despite this apparent snub, Gordon Brown was meeting for two hours of talks with Barack Obama at the White House.

The Guardian reported that Brown’s officials played down the significance of the decision, which has taken some of the lustre off his coup in becoming the first European leader invited to Washington for talks with Obama since his inauguration in January.

Brown intends to persuade Obama that America needs to swing behind the prime minister’s plan to reform international financial regulation and clean up debt-ridden banks. Brown was accorded the rare honour of being invited to address a joint session of Congress tomorrow.

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