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Brown rejects Bush's bomber jacket


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The fur-lined aviator jacket, with a "Rt Hon Gordon Brown" name badge and Camp David seal on it, was presented to the formally-dressed former finance minister when he visited Bush at his presidential retreat in July last year. Official gifts worth over £140 are automatically 'held by the department', with the option for the receiver to buy them back, if they wish, though Brown has rejected this option for the bomber jacket in question.

In contrast, Blair used his option to buy all the gifts he received from May until his departure in June 2007, including a £500 painting from Bush, a £400 pewter tea set from Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, a £350 silver tray from a restoration project in Tripoli, and a porcelain figure from the German government, worth £250.

Other gifts detailed included, amusingly, "boxed perfumes" to former deputy prime minister John Prescott. It has also been retained by his department.
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9 responses // Brown rejects Bush's bomber jacket

  • Maybe he just didn't like the jacket.
    Brockie
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  • It looks brand new. ... Almost like IT WAS NEVER USED.

    hmm... strange
    chillwillNJ
  • While I think it is quite rude to reject a gift even if it is as ugly as this jacket and involves paying money for it, I think it is pretty funny that Brown just did not want it especially since it is personalised and can therefore not be passed onto the next visitor.
    JanaPokana
  • How tacky.
    mischabarrett
  • Does Brown really know nothing about a little word I like to call diplomacy?
    thekingbeyond
  • Maybe he thought he'd look like a dick cause he knows that 98% of everyone hates Bush at this point.
    onechance
  • Good on him - the British government should have rejected many more things from George W Bush in the last few years...
    LindseyIndigo
  • Yay! He rejected fur! Okay Brown, I so farlike you for, ONE thing...another 50 positives to oudo all you messed up now only to go...
    steadward

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