LONDON (BNO NEWS) – David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, caught between calls to stand up to Barack Obama's criticism of BP and at the same time cannot afford to compromise the so-called special relationship between the two countries by attacking Obama, the Guardian reported on Friday.

The Prime Minister cannot be seen to attack President Obama on an issue that is causing the President political strife in his country. In fact, Cameron met with the BP chairman in Downing Street and the chairman said "We are all concerned about the human and environmental impact and as the Prime Minister has said, we understand the concerns of the United States administration."

Cameron plans to speak with Obama in a long-awaited conversation, but there has been agitation in Tory circles after it emerged that only the climate change secretary, Chris Huhne, had spoken with the US administration to discuss the crisis.

BP directors will hold a special board meeting on Monday to decide whether to cut the dividend or take some other kind of initiative as a "peace offering" to Barack Obama before a meeting at the White House on Wednesday.

The BP board meeting will include the chief executive, Tony Hayward, in Houston and other members via teleconferencing from different parts of the world. A common line will be hammer out which will serve as a strategy position that Svanberg and Hayward will be able to present to Obama in Washington 48 hours later.

This comes after news that new figures show that twice as much oil is spewing into the ocean that earlier estimates had previously figured.

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