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December 17, 2000
LONDON (AP) — The leader of Britain's Conservative Party has privately urged U.S. President-elect Bush to forge tighter links with his opposition Tories, The Sunday Telegraph reported. In a private letter seen by the newspaper, opposition leader William Hague told Bush that the two leaders should mirror the close relationship enjoyed by U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ``I hope that it will be possible for Conservatives and Republicans to enjoy the same relationship,'' Hague said. A Conservative Party spokeswoman confirmed the content of the letter. Such high-profile friendships have in the past developed when like-minded parties were in power at the same time — as with Republican Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, a Tory, during the 1980s. Since Bush's razor-thin election victory became clear last week, the United States and Britain have publicly emphasized that their close ties will not be threatened by a changing of the guard at the White House. The U.S. ambassador to Britain, Philip Lader, remarked Friday that the two nations ``are so irrevocably intertwined that the relationship is not to be defined by the personal friendship of a Blair and Clinton or Reagan and Thatcher.'' An open friendship between Hague and Bush would nonetheless be awkward, especially amid predictions Blair, of the Labor Party, will easily retain power the next time Britons go to the polls. Hague, expected to run against Blair if elections are called for next year, suggested in his letter that the U.S. election marked a shift in Western political winds. He told the Texas governor that his victory marked ``a great blow to the Clinton-Blair Third Way'' — a term used to describe the leaders' common style of center-left governing.
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