GETTY Obama has been accused of hand-picking his audience for a Q&A in London last week

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The 'town hall' meeting gave young people the opportunity to speak to the president, although one Tory MP has accused the President of the United States of shunning local people in order to secure a PC-friendly backdrop for the event. Shipley MP Philip Davies said he felt the crowd did not accurately reflect his constituency or Britain in general and accused the attendees of reading out pre-approved questions. He said: "Everybody knows Obama can only deliver a speech that is scripted for him. It seems he is also only able to answer questions from people who have also been selected and scripted for him.

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GETTY A Tory MP has said the crowd at the 'town hall' meeting did not accurately represent Britain

REUTERS Maria Munir came out as non-binary at the event, meaning they don't associate as male or female

I don’t think the audience represented Britain. Shipley MP Philip Davies

"I don’t think the audience represented Britain. As far as I am aware, nobody from Shipley was invited or was in the audience – though I am happy to be corrected if they were." While the majority of the 500-person crowd had been invited by random ballot due to their participation in youth programmes, a number were said to have been hand-picked by the US embassy. The event at the Royal Horticultural Halls was attended by Ali Hashem, an Iraq-born Labour councillor, Khadija Najefi, a King's College London student who volunteers in Calais and Maria Munir, a Muslim who used the event to come out as non-binary - meaning she identifies as neither a female or male.

EPA / REUTERS Annie Lenox and Benedict Cumberbatch were in attendance at the Q&A

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Also present was actor Benedict Cumberbatch, football chairwoman and The Apprentice aide Karen Brady, Bank of England governor Mark Carne and singer Annie Lenox. The event came a day after Mr Obama waded into the Brexit debate and controversially told Britain it would be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal with America if it quit the EU. His threat provoked anger from pro-Brexit campaigners, who dismissed it as yet another scaremongering ploy from the pro-EU lobby.