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Article: Britain's Gordon Brown: a change in tone for US; Britain focuses on how the heir apparent to Prime Minister Tony Blair may affect transatlantic ties.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 5, 2007
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Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
LONDON -- Ever since Tony Blair let slip in September 2004 that he had plans to step down, two questions have loomed large in Britain. When will he go, and what will his successor do differently?
Now that the answer to the first question is more or less settled - Mr. Blair is expected to move on by midsummer - the focus is turning to the second.
Barring an improbable political upset, that man will be Gordon Brown, an earnest Scot with a rigorous intellect and a passion for social justice who has served - not always comfortably - for 10 years as Blair's finance minister and ...