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Toby Harnden

Toby Harnden

in Washington DC

Toby Harnden has been The Daily Telegraph's US Editor since 2006. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Cheryl, daughter Tessa and dog Finn. Toby was previously Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph. He first joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 and has been its Ireland Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent. He is the author of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). An archive of his work is at www.tobyharnden.com. Story ideas and news tips are welcomed and Toby can be contacted at toby.harnden@telegraph.co.uk. His Facebook profile is here.

Rudy Giuliani does London

Posted by Toby Harnden on 20 Sep 2007  at 15:15 
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Greetings from London, which isn't Des Moines, Iowa or Manchester, New Hampshire quite yet but does seem to have become an obligatory 2008 campaign stop. Michelle Obama - Mrs Hopeful Audacity - and Bill surrogate-in-chief Clinton are due to hold fundraising events here soon. But first up was Rudy Giuliani.

Rudy Giuliani meets Gordon Brown
Giuliani is keen to prove he is a big player on the world stage

The Giuliani campaign is giddy with excitement. As I report in today's paper, he managed to score meetings with current PM Gordon Brown and his immediate predecessor Tony Blair before being honoured at a dinner with Margaret Thatcher. In between, he hobnobbed with Sir Winston Churchill's grand daughter at a fundraising lunch. Oh, and he also took a call from Ehud Olmert, Israel's PM. Not a bad day's work.

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Posted by Toby Harnden on 20 Sep 2007 at 15:15