With the ascension of Gordon Brown to the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, many people were assuming that Britain's close relationship with the United States would be ending, with a left-winger and socialist leaning leader taking the reigns. Could it really be that the dual Anglo-American world power was not the two-horned wild beast after all?
It doesn't look like it, with Gordon Brown giving his assurance that the US is Britain's "most important bilateral relationship" and that he himself is an "Atlanticist and a great admirer of the American spirit". He also said that he wants to "do more to strenghten even further our relationship with the US."
So it seems that the two-horned wild beast keeps its two horns.
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Gordon Brown vacations every year on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has for years. (maybe now that he is chief he will have to change his routine)
He "knows" America much better than did Tony Blair, but it might not appear so because he is reserved whereas Blair was (or could appear to be) a backslapper.
He may distance himself a little from Bush, the latter being unpopular, but he will not distance himself from the U.S.
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