Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
U.S.-British relations may be cooling off
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 15, 2007
LONDON - Britain's "special relationship" with the United States could be cooling, as a senior government official said that new Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Bush would not be "joined at the hip." But Britain's new foreign secretary dismissed talk that the relationship had changed. Lord Malloch Brown - a Foreign Office minister and former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations - said in a Daily Telegraph interview published Saturday that Britain needs a more "impartial" foreign policy. "You need to build coalitions which are lateral, which go beyond the bilateral blinkers of the normal partners," Malloch Brown told the Telegraph. "My hope is that foreign policy will become much more impartial." Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's close relationship with Bush caused tension across Britain. Blair was sharply criticized for eagerly joining the U.S.-led Iraq war. However, Foreign Secretary David Miliband stressed in a commentary published today that the United States remains Britain's strongest ally despite a change in leadership.
[Last modified July 15, 2007, 00:45:38]
Share your thoughts on this story
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Letter to the editor
