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...same, if you ask a Labour MP why Blair's in trouble, the first answer isn't Baghdad but Brown - Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The two men have been allies and rivals for two decades. Brown's overwhelming ambition for the top job and contempt for Blair as an intellectual lightweight have been held in check only by his conviction, born of Labour's agonies in the 1980s, that inheriting a disunited party would mean electoral self-immolation. To get Brown's full-throated support during the 2005 election, Blair was forced to promise to quit before...
...Byers, who called for inheritance tax to be abolished, arguing that it was now hurting middle-class homeowners, including those in marginal electoral constituencies. It was a politically charged call because Byers is a close ally of Blair and an outspoken opponent of his likely successor Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The danger for Labour, Byers told the British broadsheet the Sunday Telegraph, is that when Blair leaves office, as he has promised to do before the next election, "voters will feel that the pragmatic and modernizing approach of New Labour has gone with him." Byers also argued...
...against three Euro-skeptic rebels in his Cabinet. He called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that "the only thing [Britain has] ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease ... you can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland [Britain is] the country with the worst food...
...Russia, partly due to historical fear of its giant neighbor to the east, and partly because it worries about losing out if Russia and Germany work closely together. Germany, meanwhile, which is Russia's biggest West European customer, seems to be pushing toward greater reliance on Russian sources. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has taken a job as head of the supervisory board of a joint venture between Gazprom and two German firms that is building an underwater gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. Roland Götz, head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International...
...famous for a local berry drink that tastes like flat, bitter orange soda. All that matters to the President, though, is that Stralsund was once represented in the Bundestag by Angela Merkel, who unseated Gerhard Schröder last fall to become Germany's first female Chancellor. Bush and Schröder barely spoke, but Bush and Merkel hit it off when she visited the White House in January, and the overnight Stralsund detour is indicative of the President's new stab at European diplomacy: find friends, even if the effort takes you to out-of-the-way places...