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Synopsis:

'Bush warns Brown over plan to cut Iraq force. President tells UK to avoid rushing into troop withdrawals'. Exclusive interview with The Observer. George Bush flies into London today with a warning for Gordon Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq, and expressing deep scepticism about the Prime Minister's high-profile strategy for bringing down world oil prices.

The stern message to the Prime Minister was delivered during an exclusive interview with The Observer, and contrasted with praise for Tony Blair whom Bush is scheduled to meet for breakfast tomorrow ahead of talks in Downing Street. Bush said Blair had never been his 'poodle', but a leader who shared his view that the world is in an 'ideological struggle' and that 'ultimately freedom has to defeat the ideology of hate'.

Publish date:

15 June 2008

Author:

Ned Temko

Source:

The Observer

Media:

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