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Brown Downplays US Fissure

New PM will visit Camp David, insists he isn't 'America's poodle'

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(Newser) – Britain's new Prime Minister is set to meet with President Bush at Camp David next week amid rumors that relations between the two nations have cooled since Tony Blair's departure. Brown is walking a tightrope between rebuffing this speculation and being seen as "America's poodle," an epithet Blair earned for his close collaboration with Bush.

"Brown has no 'poodle' baggage, no one's ever thought of him as a poodle," said an American scholar. Nor will he and Bush be "joined together at the hip," one of his appointees says. The talks will cover an array of issues from climate change to Iraq, a contentious subject that analysts say helped sink Brown's predecessor.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech at the Labour Party National Policy Forum in London, Saturday July 14, 2007. On Friday, newspaper reports in Britain suggested a speech by International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, a Cabinet minister, was a subtle critique of President Bush's policies. Prime Minister Brown...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech at the Labour Party National Policy Forum in London, Saturday July 14, 2007. On Friday, newspaper reports in Britain suggested a speech by International...   (Associated Press)
British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.   (AP)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives a statement to the House of Commons in London in this image taken from TV Wednesday July 25, 2007. Brown on Wednesday called for extending the time limits for detaining terrorist suspects before they have to be charged beyond the current 28 days but...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives a statement to the House of Commons in London in this image taken from TV Wednesday July 25, 2007. Brown on Wednesday called for extending the time limits...   (Associated Press)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during his first regular press conference as Prime Minister, at 10 Downing Street in London, Monday July 23, 2007, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Tony Blair, who introduced the routine of monthly interrogations by the press, and who was renowned for his...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during his first regular press conference as Prime Minister, at 10 Downing Street in London, Monday July 23, 2007, following in the footsteps of his predecessor...   (Associated Press)
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