Sunday, December 28, 2008

UK's Brown Defiant On Economy, Sees New U.S. Alliance

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Gordon Brown will use his New Year address to call for a "coalition for change" with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in a speech intended as a rallying call to Britons.

Brown, who frequently uses the comparison of the Second World war to describe the current global financial crisis, will tell Britons they have the strength of resolve to tackle a recession.

"Today the issues may be different, more complex, more global. And yet the qualities we need to meet them the British people have demonstrated in abundance before," Brown says in excerpts of the speech released by his office on Sunday.

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