President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are doing their best to get the leaders of other industrialized nations to adopt their stimulus spending strategy. Why are they urging this approach on the rest of the international community? Will the rest of the world salute and obey or resist the diplomatic offensive? What is the reaction in Britain to Brown’s effort to spend the UK out of a recession? Do people take his side or the side of the British member of the European Parliament, who scolded the prime minister last week? When will the British people weigh in at the ballot box? And how are the British reacting to the diplomatic stumbles over the Obama administration’s gifts for Brown and Queen Elizabeth? We ask Jonathan Clarke, a former British diplomat and senior fellow at the Carnegie Council.
