Sarah Baxter, the influential Washington Bureau Chief of The Sunday Times, has a very interesting interview with senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, Samantha Power. Power reveals that Obama is a big admirer of Britain's Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations:
"the principal conduit between Britain and the candidate has been Lord Malloch-Brown, the junior foreign minister, whom Obama came to admire when he was deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.
“He was really taken with him,” says Power, in what will undoubtedly be viewed by American conservatives as a desperately bad sign. “It’s a relationship that has persisted and they have talked a number of times since.”
Malloch Brown is well known for his stridently anti-American views, and is without doubt Gordon Brown's most controversial hire. He was recently profiled in a major piece by The Spectator.
