Gordon Brown speech accepting the nomination as the Labour Party Leader

Gordon Brown speech accepting the nomination as the Labour Party Leader; Michael Crick (BBC2 Newsnight Political Editor) speaking SOT - Asks how big an admirer Brown is of George W Bush Gordon Brown MP interview SOT - The relationship between a British Prime Minister and an American President must and ought be be a very strong one / I look forward to building that relationship with the President of the United States / It is often forgotten that the values that the American people hold and the values the British people hold are belief in liberty, the dignity of the individual / Our belief that we should work together for making progress in dealing with common problems / These values have been shared right across the decades and right across the centuries, whichever Prime Minister and whichever President is in power / British foreign policy is about the pursuit of the British national interest and what is in the British national interest / But I do stress that the values we share in common with our European partners and our American friends are values that are shared / Values that are similar / Values that have endured over the ages