Inspiring leadership from the tumbling New Labour leader. The reincarnation of Churchill, really.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is looking for a boost to his political fortunes by meeting President Barack Obama to discuss the global economic crisis.
In hard political times at home, Brown scrambled to be the first European leader to visit Obama and hopes to benefit from Britons' high regard for the American president and to demonstrate British leadership at a time of economic uncertainty.
Brown, who was to meet Obama on Tuesday, was laying the groundwork for a G-20 economic summit of advanced and developing nations meeting in London next month. The summit, which Brown is chairing, is critical for improving global economic confidence as well as Brown's political prospects.
