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Article: After Tony Blair: the first Labour Party annual conference under the leadership of new prime minister, Gordon Brown, revealed few foreign policy surprises, observes Westminster commentator and political analyst Adel Darwish.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
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- The Middle East
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- November 1, 2007
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WITHIN MOMENTS OF Foreign Secretary David Miliband's first speech to the annual party conference in September, news networks began rounding up the usual suspects for their analysis on whether, under new prime minister Gordon Brown, Britain was about to see a substantial change in foreign policy?
Was the youngest Labour foreign minister in three decades, voicing his master Gordon Brown's thinking of a 'new vision', or was the ship sailing the same old course, reprinted on fancy charts to woo an electorate suspicious of the logic of our US ally's foreign policy?
A new course, different from Washington's, which would therefore distance Brown from his ...