Independent UK: (Gordon) Brown vows new alliance with Obama

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Brown vows new alliance with Obama
Prime Minister seeks global coalition for change with US president-elect

By Jane Merrick, Political Editor
Sunday, 28 December 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.

Turning to Britain's handling of what will be confirmed as a recession early in 2009, Mr Brown promises that the Government will be the "rock of stability" on which people can depend. Invoking the fighting spirit of the Second World War, he says British people have the character and qualities to deal with whatever is thrown at them.

He takes a swipe at David Cameron and the Conservatives, whom he accuses of being the "do nothing" party on the economy, warning: "The threat that will come of doing too little is greater than the threat of attempting too much." .......(more)

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