The Australian: UK takes another step away from US - by Tom Baldwin

Gordon Brown moves away from George Bush Policies
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The UK takes another step away from US - by Tom Baldwin

"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Government took another tentative step to distance itself from President George W. Bush yesterday, mixing praise for the US with carefully coded criticisms of its foreign policy. One of Mr Brown's closest allies, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, used a speech in Washington yesterday to rebuke what many in Labour's ranks regard as Mr Bush's unilateralist and high-handed approach over much of the past six years. Mr Alexander said that a country's might is "too often measured in what they could destroy" and that "in the 21st century, strength should be measured by what we can build together".

In an appeal for greater use of reformed multilateralist institutions such as the UN and the World Bank, he said: "Just as we need the rule of law at home to have civilization, so we need rules abroad to ensure global civilization."