Sunday, August 29, 2010

Blair Succession

An interesting piece in the papers today over how the US and Busy had wanted to ensure Blair could stay on as PM for as long as possible after Brown had harangued Condoleeza Rice over foreign policy when she visited the UK.

Ultimately they must have thought Brown was not someone they could easily do business with (or get unwavering support from as they had been used to with Blair).

In some ways it is interesting to know they even were that worried, Brown certainly was never going to back out of Iraq of Afghanistan after being part of a government that had backed the controversial wars.

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