Will our relations with the UK change?
Judging from his statements, the Brits will remain in Iraq for some time. He is just making more politcal correct and “moderate” rhetoric, probably to calm down the anti-war labours.
This is a slight deterioraiton compared to Blair... but IMO what Britain needs is a Conservative PM, not labour. Howard would have been great.
Brown, the serious, intellectual son of a no-nonsense Scottish minister, travelled to the US to see how Clinton and freewheeling aides such as James Carville created politics and policy and sold them to the public. Over the years Brown has become friends with key Democratic figures, including the political strategist Bob Shrum and Senator Edward Kennedy.
He has remained a regular visitor to the US. “He is steeped in the whole public discourse in America in a way that Blair isn’t,” Naughtie says.
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Neal Lawson, a former Brown adviser who now runs Compass, a centre-left political advocacy group in London, says Brown’s foreign policy is a closely held mystery. “I don’t think it’s even clear who’s advising Gordon on foreign policy,” he says. “Nobody seems to know.”
Hold on now, what about the Torys? Isn't there going to be another election to choose a PM?