It says something about the parlous state of relations between Washington and London that a Democratic American president can use words like "lackluster," "depressing" and "dour" to describe a prime minister from the British Labour party.
According to "Renegade," a new biography of President Barack Obama by British journalist Richard Wolffe, these were the words the president used to describe his first impressions of Prime Minister Gordon Brown after they met in July last year. Now, following the scandal surrounding the Brown government's involvement in the decision to repatriate the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, one suspects another word is being used at the White House to sum up Mr. Obama's view of his British counterpart: duplicitous.
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