US-UK partnership vital against terror: Brown

“This partnership of purpose matters now more than ever. For if in the last century we fought together to save the very idea of freedom from the totalitarian threat, in this generation we defend together the ideal of freedom against the terrorist threat,” he wrote.

Even before arriving at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Sunday, Brown had moved to quash speculation that he wants to distance his administration from the White House due to resentment over Iraq.

Describing himself as an “Atlanticist” and a “great admirer of the US spirit of enterprise and national purpose,” he said he had come to reaffirm and even strengthen the so-called “special relationship” between the two longtime allies.