Summary
When he set up his International Business Advisory Council last year, Brown's American heroes, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates, Robert Rubin (Bill Clinton's treasury secretary and now a director at Citigroup), Lee Scott (CEO of Wal-Mart) and Meg Whitman (CEO of eBay, no less) outnumbered British or other European businessmen and women on its 12-member council.
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When Mr Brown Goes to Washington
Let us, first, imagine the scene. We are in London and the spring daffodils of 2009 are in full bloom. But the prime ministership of Gordon Brown, despite being less than two years' old, is in deep trouble: the Tories are soaring past Labour in the polls, and it is widely assumed that David Cameron will be replacing Brown within a year. But in the space of a few days, 21st-century British politics is transformed.
Brown himself, though, had started to feel a glimmer of hope that his political career might yet be resuscitated the previous November. He had stayed up all night on the first Tuesday of that month to watch the US presidential election results come in. Not long aft...See the full content of this document
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