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| Brown and Bush 'got on very well' | Brown and Bush 'got on very well' |
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| Gordon Brown has said he "got on very well" with US President George W Bush, after the pair met for the first time in Washington DC on Friday. | Gordon Brown has said he "got on very well" with US President George W Bush, after the pair met for the first time in Washington DC on Friday. |
| Mr Brown told the BBC he discussed global trade with the president in an informal meeting at the White House. | Mr Brown told the BBC he discussed global trade with the president in an informal meeting at the White House. |
| He said he had not expected to meet Mr Bush, who just "happened to be available to come and see me". | He said he had not expected to meet Mr Bush, who just "happened to be available to come and see me". |
| The talks are being interpreted as a sign of the US preparing to deal with Mr Brown as Tony Blair's successor. | The talks are being interpreted as a sign of the US preparing to deal with Mr Brown as Tony Blair's successor. |
| 'Recalibrate' relations | |
| In an interview with the BBC's Washington correspondent, Justin Webb, Mr Brown said: "We had a general discussion, mainly about trade issues, and I don't think there's anything more to add than that." | In an interview with the BBC's Washington correspondent, Justin Webb, Mr Brown said: "We had a general discussion, mainly about trade issues, and I don't think there's anything more to add than that." |
| He stressed that the UK and US were bound together by "shared values" that had grown up over the past 200 years. | He stressed that the UK and US were bound together by "shared values" that had grown up over the past 200 years. |
| Our correspondent contrasted Mr Brown's "coolness" over the meeting with the warm personal relations Mr Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have enjoyed. | Our correspondent contrasted Mr Brown's "coolness" over the meeting with the warm personal relations Mr Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have enjoyed. |
| He said Mr Bush was deeply unpopular with many left-wing Labour MPs, and the chancellor could be preparing to "recalibrate" relations with the president. | |
| Mr Brown is in Washington meeting finance chiefs from the world's leading industrial nations as a prelude to wider talks in the International Monetary Fund. | |
| Following a conference with his international counterparts, he said they had agreed that "resolving imbalances in the global economy, in a way that is compatible with sustained growth, is a shared responsibility". |