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Mitt’s British Blunders: How It Played In The UK Press
Mitt’s British Blunders: How It Played In The UK Press
David Taintor
Mitt Romney is off to a spectacularly bad start in London, at least according to the British press ridiculing the Republican candidate on his first major foreign trip.
British officials — and the newspapers that cover them — took offense to Romney questioning whether London is well-prepared to handle the security issues ahead of the summer games. Romney called the situation “disconcerting.” British Prime Minister David Cameron hit back, saying there is no doubt “Britain can deliver.”
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Here’s how Romney’s visit to London played in the UK press.
David Taintor
Mitt Romney is off to a spectacularly bad start in London, at least according to the British press ridiculing the Republican candidate on his first major foreign trip.
British officials — and the newspapers that cover them — took offense to Romney questioning whether London is well-prepared to handle the security issues ahead of the summer games. Romney called the situation “disconcerting.” British Prime Minister David Cameron hit back, saying there is no doubt “Britain can deliver.”
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Here’s how Romney’s visit to London played in the UK press.
- The Financial Times played it relatively straight, writing: “Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican candidate for the US presidency, got off to a shaky start in his effort to show a statesmanlike profile when he seemed to get into a public spat with the UK prime minister over London’s readiness to host the Olympics.”
<...> - In fact, The Guardian has an entire live blog devoted to Britons rebuking Romney’s visit.
- The Times of London’s home page led with the following headline:
- Times of London columnist Janice Turner tweeted:
Janice Turner @VictoriaPeckham So Mitt Romney disses our Olympics. We're the Special Relationship, the easypeasy bit of US foreign relations. How will he deal with China?
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good news for John McCain.
