A reactionat hotarât si calm la atentatele teroriste puse la cale in priuma saptamâna a mandatului sau. A expulzat patru "diplomati" rusi dupa ce Rusia a refuzat extradarea lui Lugovoi, principalul suspect in asasinarea lui Litvinenco. 

When a murder takes place, when a number of innocent civilians were put at risk as a result of that murder, and when an independent prosecuting authority makes it absolutely clear what is in the interests of justice, and there is no forthcoming co-operation, then action has to be taken.
Gordon Brown

Update 1: Presa britanica sustine unanim decizia de expulzare a diplomatilor rusi  (Newsin)
Update 2: Londra inaspreste tonul (Newsin) 
Update 3: Alianta franco-britanica impotriva Rusiei (Cotidianul)

Mi-a placut si numirea lui Sir Alan West ca secretar de stat coordonator al politicilor antiteroriste. Tipul este fostul sef al marinei, erou in razboiul din Falklands.

In fine, noul ministru de externe, David Miliband, a reafirmat în termeni fara echivoc continuarea relatiei speciale dintre Marea Britanie si SUA. Miliband a incercat sa puna capat speculatiilor aparute în urma unor declaratii controversate ale altor membri ai cabinetului Brown - Douglas Alexander, ministru pentru dezvoltarea internationala, si Lord Malloch Brown, secretar de stat responsabil cu reforma ONU, Africa si Asia.

Our commitment to work with the Americans in general and the Bush administration in particular is resolute. (…) With a new Brown government some people are looking for evidence that our alliance is breaking up. There isn’t any, and there won’t be any. Nothing has changed. Our single most important bilateral partner is the USA.
David Miliband
 

Update (9 august): Good for Brown, the master of spin and stunts (Daniel Finkelstein, The Times) 

Update (2 august): Now it's spin with a puritanical twist (Daily Telegraph)

Update (26 iulie): Excuse me if I don’t join in the compliments (The Times)
Anatole Kaletsky scrie un text de opinie pentru The Times în care spune contrariul, ca Brown nu a facut mare lucru, ca nu a venit cu idei noi si nici nu a abandonat acele politici ale lui Blair care erau controversate.  

Mr Brown has talked incessantly of change and played the media to perfection, but he has offered no plausible new ideas on matters of real substance.
Anatole Kaletsky, The Times

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