Gordon Brown Vows New Alliance with Obama. By Jane Merrick, The Independent (UK), December 28, 2008. "Gordon Brown will today use his New Year message to broker a new 'coalition for change' with Barack Obama on the economy, the environment and the war on terrorism. In an attempt to make a decisive break from the Blair-Bush era of transatlantic diplomacy, the Prime Minister sets out the terms for the new special relationship with the president-elect ahead of his inauguration next month. Despite the global economic storm, Britain and the US will work closely on tackling climate change, including a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at next year's Copenhagen summit, Mr Brown says in his traditional turn-of-the-year address... Despite Tony Blair's close relationship with George Bush, the former prime minister was never able to convert the outgoing president to the fight against global warming. Mr Brown's aides are optimistic that the Obama administration will herald a transformation in how the world tackles climate change."
2008-12-28
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