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RSA chairman slams Obama's "anti-British rhetoric" over BP

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Barack Obama has been labelled anti-British for his attack on BP in an open letter from John Napier, chairman of RSA.

In the letter, Sky News reported that Mr Napier said Mr Obama should act in a "more Statesman like way".

In a Sky News interview, Mr Napier said: "I've just put on record my concerns about the tone that has developed, particularly about the personalisational issues, which is alien to us in our culture. "And the fact it's being received over here as an anti-British rhetoric - that may not be his intent, but that is how it's reading."

In the letter Mr Napier questions Mr Obama's ability to take

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