Brown's secret meeting with Clinton
Tags: America, Gordon Brown, Bill Clinton, Special relationship, President George W Bush, faux pas
So Gordon Brown took the opportunity to meet Bill Clinton at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on Monday night . It was a hush hush affair. I asked a Downing Street official that very morning on Capitol Hill whether Brown had any extra meetings planned in the Big Apple and, specifically, whether he would call on Clinton - I was told no.
When Gordon met Bill: an unnecessary mistake
What did it signify? Pretty obvious really - that Bush is only one of the Americans Brown will deal with and that he views the Democrats, and specifically the Clintons, are the power in waiting. On the basis that it is never good for British PM's to meddle in internal US politics (as John Major will attest), this was not a clever move.
Brown: mending the Atlantic bridge?
Tags: George Bush, Gordon Brown, Special relationship, Mark Malloch Brown
Our new Prime Minister is due on these shores Sunday evening and will head straight to Camp David for a tete-a-tete with President Bush. He's arriving just in the nick of time because the British press has been full of talk of transatlantic splits and rifts.
For Britain but is he for loosening ties with America?
So is it all Fleet Street hot air? Or is the "special relationship" doomed? Well, neither. Mark Malloch Brown's Cabinet appointment was a big mistake in White House eyes - even before he shot his mouth off. But thus far Brown himself has said all the right things. Will he follow it up with action?
Poodle: An American View of Tony Blair
Tags: Washington, Iraq, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Foreign, Special relationship, US State Department
Your view: What has Blair gained from his alliance with Bush?
In this world of spin doctors, PR executives and message discipline there is something remarkably refreshing about someone speaking their mind and damn the consequences.
How special is the British/US relationship?
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