27/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Voltaire Network for the Freedom of Speech has stated that David Frum, former speechwriter to President Bush, has been on mission to London for several weeks, where he has been "assiduously courting Downing Street". The Network quotes The Daily Telegraph, which confirmed that the United States was "encouraging London to sever ties with the EU's political institutions" (http: //www.reseauvoltaire.net/elements/transpix.gif).