Mr Miliband this morning told us that the US-UK relationship is still central to the UK’s foreign policy. He implied that junior Foreign Office Minister Brown was offside when he told us all the US and the UK are no longer joined at the hip.

It looks as if PM Brown and Foreign Secretary Milliband are out to have it both ways. They themselves tell us nothing has changed in the US/UK relationship, whilst more junior members of the government brief away that their speeches show things have changed. For the home audience the top pair want people to believe the relationship is now cooler, whilst for the foreign audience they want the Bush regime to believe they are great friends still.

It’s a dangerous game to play. The US has good analysts capable of reading the UK press and speeches. Mr Brown may discover there is one world spin machien more powerfful than his own, and that is the spin machine run from the Oval office.

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