UK hints at foreign policy shift

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A British Cabinet minister has hinted at a change in the relationship between the UK and US.
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He warned against unilateralism and called for an "internationalist approach" to global problems.

Correspondents say the speech appeared to be a "coded criticism" of the policies of President George W Bush.
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BBC correspondent James Westhead said the speech appeared to suggest that Britain was distancing itself from US President George W Bush.





Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6896797.stm

[Greeby]

1. Hey Broon, don't play chickenshit with us

We want better than hints, especially if you want to win the next general election

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Story now heavily changed by BBC: "Speech not critical of US - Brown"

(same link as above)

Asked if this amounted to criticising the US, Gordon Brown's spokesman said that view "was not shared" by the PM.

He said Mr Alexander had given "a fairly straightforward speech on development".

It was "not some startling new insight", the spokesman said, adding that the "interpretation", rather than the "content" had been the problem.
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Earlier, Mr Brown told BBC Radio 5 Live: "We will not allow people to separate us from the United States of America in dealing with the common challenges that we face around the world.

I don't think you'll even get hints, Greeby.

[babylonsister]

3. Brown ally distances Britain from US over Iraq

Source: Edinburgh News

Brown ally distances Britain from US over Iraq
IAN SWANSON ([e-mail])

ONE of Gordon Brown's closest allies has distanced Britain from America over the war in Iraq as President Bush resisted a vote in Congress to withdraw US troops.

International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander told an audience in Washington last night that a country's strength should no longer be measured by its destructive power. Instead, nations had to build "new alliances" which "reach out to the world".

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Read more: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1093762007

[LynnTheDem]

4. About time the UK gov joined the vast majority of the world against

bush's America.