The inner thoughts of Gordon Brown, the recent successor in Downing Street to Tony Blair, are a wholly unknown quantity.The inner thoughts of Gordon Brown, the recent successor in Downing Street Downing Street, Westminster, London, England. On the street are the British Foreign Office and, at No. 10, the residence of the first lord of the Treasury, who is usually (although not necessarily) the prime minister of Great Britain. to Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair , are a wholly unknown quantity. In a peculiarly lugubrious lu·gu·bri·ous adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. [From Latin l voice, he delivers himself of abstract language on almost all subjects; his statements might mean anything or nothing. On foreign affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. , he has always been either silent or mystifyingly opaque. So when he went to Camp David, the media everywhere assumed that some insight must at last emerge. Surely he would use this important occasion to take his distance from Blair, whose pro-American eagerness was considered a liability? Wouldn't Britain announce a date for withdrawal from Iraq? Not a bit of it. The platitudes rolled out in those lugubrious tones, and nobody was any the wiser about intentions or plans, let alone a change of direction. President Bush was polite enough, or bewildered enough, to describe his visitor as "humorous." |
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