Here’s the official White House photo of Miliband’s meeting with president Obama at the White House earlier today. Far from a “brush-past”, it looks (from this photo at least) like the two had a serious sit down meeting.

As for the imagery – Miliband and his team will be pleased this is what the White House have put out, with the President reaching out a hand to the Labour leader:
You can read what the two men talked about here.


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