| (Xinhua) -- Gordon Brown was officially endorsed as the new leader of Britain's Labor Party on Sunday, three days before he succeeds Tony Blair as prime minister. In a short statement to introduce Brown as his successor, Blair said, "from today, the leader of our party, very soon to be the leader of our country." Brown is "a man with strong soundness convictions, true to his principles, a man with every quality to mark him out as a great Prime Minister of our country," Blair told his fellow colleagues for the last time as their leader. Brown will give his "best in the service of the country," Blair said, "I know his best is as good as it gets." |