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Growing A Pair 20th September 2007 From Tony Blair, we heard nothing but excuses about Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe, he argued, was an 'African problem' requiring an 'African solution'. Now Gordon Brown has taken a stand. The European Union, after much procrastination, imposed a travel ban on Mugabe. Despite that, it plans to invite him to an EU-African summit in December. Other African leaders have threatened not to attend if the Zimbabwean president were excluded. Now Mr Brown has made it clear that he will boycott the summit if Mugabe attends. There has been predictable disapproval from appeasing European politicians, but this is the right decision. Mugabe has turned his country into a wasteland. Inflation is 6,600 per cent, four out of five people live in poverty, a quarter of the population have fled the country, life expectancy is the world's lowest and opponents have been tortured and killed. Just one thought for our prime minister. The European Constitution, which Mr Brown wants to adopt in its thinly disguised Treaty form, without a referendum, will give the EU a common foreign policy administered by a European foreign minister. So one day soon Britain could find itself bound by a policy on Zimbabwe with which we profoundly disagree. Daily
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