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Gordon Brown is first World leader to commit to Copenhagen

Ed Miliband broke the news via Twitter – Gordon Brown is the first World leader to commit to Copenhagen:

Good news. Gordon Brown has announced that he is prepared to go to Copenhagen to clinch a deal.

He’s the first major world leader to say he’ll do so.

As you know, the deal is really hanging in the balance now so I hope that Gordon’s announcement will start to create some momentum ahead of the UN General Assembly and the G20 meetings. Gordon and I will be talking to world leaders this week about the deal and I’ll report back on where we get to.

At the moment, countries are to be too far apart but I hope that leaders signalling they are ready to come to Copenhagen will help improve the prospects of a deal.

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