
John McCain was heavily courted by both parties as his Republican machine swept into London yesterday.It was a case of which party could throw quite literally the best party
The Independent commenting
After sitting at Gordon Brown's side in the Cabinet Room yesterday, John McCain went to the House of Commons, where a gaggle of onlookers shouted, "It's the next president of the United States!" as he was greeted by David Cameron and a line of honour of senior Tories, including William Hague, George Osborne and Liam Fox.and
Not to be outdone, Mr Cameron's team organised an equally good backdrop for Mr McCain's photocall with the Tory leader. They won permission from the Commons authorities for the two men to be filmed in New Palace Yard, just under Big Ben.
Of course Brown's sympathy's will surely lie with the eventual winner of the Democratic nomination,not so much on political lines but a pro invasion supporter in the White wold surley be a bridge too far.
As for David Cameron,well James Forsyth writes at Coffee House that
McCain can help Cameron in policy terms too. Cameron has struggled to come up with an inspiring way to talk about his greenery, it can sound rather too doom and gloomy. McCain offers a solution to this problem. He talks inspiringly about how tackling climate change is going to create jobs not cost them, spur economic growth not constrict it and increase rather than harm America’s competitiveness. If Cameron did this, I suspect that he would find the right far more congenial to his greenery than it currently is.
Iain Martin meanwhile reports
The PM’s excellent present to Senator McCain was a signed copy of Martin Gilbert’s Second World War. I’m not sure who it was signed by (Gilbert or Brown? Certainly not Churchill as the book was published in 1989) but it says more than that somebody at Number 10 has a good feel for McCain’s tastes. The PM is starting to take an interest in matters Churchillian and more broadly in the stories of heroism in WWII.
But the final word to the Guardian who report
Of all the claims in support of John McCain's bid for the White House, perhaps none is quite as grand as this. As he arrived in London yesterday, the publishers of his new book insisted the Republican senator's family was descended from the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.
For a veteran war hero staking his presidential campaign on military credentials, an ancestral link to a warrior who overcame the English to reclaim Scottish independence in 1314 has obvious appeal. But according to experts, the story may be no more than that. Asked by the Guardian to investigate McCain's family history, genealogists and medieval historians described the link to Robert the Bruce as "wonderful fiction" and "baloney
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