Your verdict: David Cameron meets Barack Obama in US

Both leaders agreed releasing the Lockerbie bomber was wrong

David Cameron has held talks with Barack Obama at the White House for the first time since becoming Prime Minister in May.

The US President and the PM spoke for three hours about the mission in Afghanistan, the economy and the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Newsbeat watched their joint press conference with English teacher Jessica Binney, who knows what it's like to live on both sides of the Atlantic.

She moved to the UK from Boston and still has family in the States.

This is her verdict.

THE RELATIONSHIP: BRITAIN & THE US

Obama: "The US and the UK enjoy a truly special relationship. We celebrate a common heritage.

"We cherish common values and we speak a common language, most of the time."

Cameron: "This is an absolutely essential relationship, if we are going to deliver the security and prosperity that our people need."

Jessica says: "It seems to be important to the media but do Americans think about the special relationship with Britain? I seriously doubt that many of them do."

THE RELATIONSHIP: OBAMA & CAMERON

Cameron: "Thank you for the tour of part of your home.

"I was most impressed by how tidy your children's bedrooms were.

Jessica Binney has lived in the UK for the past seven years

"If the President of the United States can get his children to tidy their bedrooms then it's about time the British Prime Minister did the same thing.

Obama: "You have to give them some notice, that's the only thing."

Jessica says: "They were trying to be chummy and trying to be friends but it didn't seem to be very natural.

"Blair and Bush had this way of mirroring each other's body language and I can remember them walking around with their hands in their pockets looking like cowboys.

"Cameron and Obama didn't seem to have that."

AFGHANISTAN

Jessica says: "Obama seemed to be talking about the strategy of leaving Afghanistan and giving independence to the Afghan government, while Cameron seemed to be speaking more about the offensive and working within Afghanistan while the troops are still there.

"The British troops that are over there, we see them coming home and we understand that we're losing a lot of British soldiers in Afghanistan and it seems to be more visible in this country than it is in the States. We don't see these soldiers coming home in caskets."

THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER

Cameron: "Releasing the Lockerbie bomber, a mass murderer, was completely wrong.

"That was not a decision taken by BP; it was a decision taken by the Scottish government.

"I don't need an inquiry to tell me it was a bad decision. It was a bad decision."

Obama: "We've got a British prime minister who shares our anger over the decision.

"I'm fully supportive of Prime Minister Cameron's efforts to gain a better understanding of it, to clarify it."

Jessica: "It seemed they were indicating it was Scotland's fault that he went.

"Not England's fault or Cameron's fault or Great Britain's fault.

"They were very clear on their united opinion on how wrong it was to send him back."

THE BP OIL SPILL

Cameron: "The oil spill is a catastrophe for the environment, the fishing industry and tourism.

"It is BP's role to cap the leak, to clean up the mess and to pay appropriate compensation."

The President shows the PM round the White House

Jessica: "American people were very, very angry about the spill.

"It's been headline news for the last month. People are angry and frustrated and they're looking for someone to blame.

"Naturally they're going to blame BP and Obama has to be seen to be doing something because he was criticised for not doing enough when it first began."

THE VERDICT: WHO WAS IN CHARGE?

Jessica: "I don't think either one was trying to assert themselves too much.

"But I don't think there was any chemistry between them either.

"I spoke to my dad yesterday and he says it hasn't been front page news back home.

"I don't think it will make much of a ripple other than what he says about BP."