Obama's Response to BP Spill Hurt U.K.-U.S. Relations, Sunday Times Says

President Barack Obama’s handling of BP Plc’s leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has damaged relations between the U.K. and U.S., the Sunday Times reported, citing a YouGov Plc poll.

Sixty-four percent of the British people surveyed by YouGov and 47 percent of the U.S. residents polled said Obama’s actions in response to the spill hurt the relationship between the two countries, the Sunday Times said. In both nations, 22 percent of people surveyed said Obama is anti-British, the newspaper said.

The poll also found 54 percent of British people have a favorable attitude toward the U.S., compared with 66 percent asked before the oil spill, the Sunday Times said. YouGov polled almost 1,500 U.K. residents and about 600 U.S. people, according to the report.

To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Dobson in London at pdobson2@bloomberg.net

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