Star Wars’ Mark Hamill hails ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ after White House meeting

Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Biden's legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw off gangsters at a fictional spaceport, came to the US capital on Friday for a meeting with Joe Biden.

Quite why he was in the Oval Office, and what was talked about, remained something of a mystery. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Biden was riding high in the opinion polls but now, perhaps, he is in need of added star power.