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Barack Obama's speech in Westminster Hall is analysed in detail in Thursday's newspapers and there is also much assessment of the impact of the US president's state visit.

The on its front page, along with his autocue.

It quotes a key passage from the speech in its headline: "Our action, our leadership, is essential to the cause of human dignity."

And the paper goes on to hail the message as one of "thanks, praise and extraordinary ambition".

But George Parker in the and reckons it was a "mild disappointment to the peers and MPs who arrived early to bag the best seats and surreptitious pictures with their mobile phones".

The Guardian devotes much of its front page to the speech but its picture shows Michelle Obama on a visit to Oxford University.

The "unambiguously on the side of those fighting for freedom across the Middle East".

In the Westminster".

And, along with the Guardian, the paper notes that he stopped short of endorsing the coalition government's spending cuts.

President Obama's words do not merit a mention on the front of the Daily Telegraph, but it does carry a photo of Mrs Obama with Samantha Cameron at the Downing Street barbecue.

The titled "redressing the balance with our closest ally".

It notes that it is "hard to believe that the Barack Obama who has proved so effortlessly charming a visitor to London this week is the same man who, at the start of his presidency, snubbed our last prime minister and made little attempt to conceal his coolness towards this country".

The on its front. On the speech, the paper reckons it "invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill".

The was that it was a PR triumph, but short on substance.

It also says President Obama's "lip-service to justice rings hollow" by his refusal to intervene in the extradition case of British hacker Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger's Syndrome.

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"It may be essential as well as special but there's no doubting who wears the trousers in this relationship," writes the paper's political editor Tom Newton Dunn.