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18th February 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

Creating growth and jobs in our economies

Sir Peter Ricketts, British Ambassador to France

All of us are looking for growth in our economies and the creation of jobs. From that point of view, it was very good news that President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union message, said that he was clearly in favour now of completing the work for a free trade commercial agreement between […]

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15th February 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

Valentine’s Night with the Obamas

Last year I bemoaned the lack of romance bought by spending Valentine’s Day evening with the otherwise charming British Government’s Chief Scientist, Sir John Beddington. (Of course in reality I secretly enjoyed it. Though that’s not something I admit to Layla.) But this year, Layla and I agreed we would determinedly avoid any event connected […]

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26th March 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by James Barbour

Press Secretary and Head of Communications

Prime Ministerial March Mayhem

UK in the USA

While most of America may have spent last week focussed on brackets and upsets, we had our own bit of March Madness here in DC: an official visit from Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha, as well as the Chancellor and Foreign Secretary. And what a visit it was. I was on the […]

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19th March 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

The essential relationship — faster, higher, stronger

It was pretty much impossible to look at a newspaper, news programme, tweet or blog last week without being met by numerous photographs of David Cameron and Barack Obama sharing a joke, or their quotes about the essential relationship shared by the US and UK. They even wrote a piece together for the Washington Post. […]

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