Gordon Brown visits Barack Obama

A plane carrying Gordon Brown taxis down the runway at Andrews air force base in Maryland Photograph: Luis Alvarez/AP

Gordon Brown has make-up applied to his face Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Gordon Brown arrives at Andrews air force base Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Gordon Brown speaks with Barack Obama at the Oval Office of the White House Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon Brown shares a laugh with Barack Obama Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Gordon Brown listens as Barack Obama speaks to reporters Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon Brown watches Barack Obama answer a question from the media Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Barack Obama and Gordon Brown laugh as they walk down the colonnade of the White House Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Barack Obama and Gordon Brown stroll down the colonnade together Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon Brown meets Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, centre, and Cardinal Theodore E McCarrick, the foundation's vice president. The organisation named Brown World Statesman of the Year Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP