Britain's middle classes, so his party claims, are enthralled by his courage and honesty.
So it remains to be seen if this rather unusual public outburst against Mr Blair - and Mr Bush - will just cause a raised eyebrow for one day, or mark a rather more important ratcheting up of public concern in Britain about where Middle East policy is going.
This outcome would push Britain only to the middle of the rich-country pack.
Speaking to Parliament last year, Britain's Minister of Middle East Affairs Alistair Burt said the money has successfully changed Israeli policies.
In Sweden, all private traffic was banned between 1am and 6am... but imagine trying to achieve that in Britain, even in the middle of the night.
Accused by British authorities of murdering a fellow ex-spy, Alexander Litvinenko, in London last November, he's now in the middle of already strained tensions between the Britain and Russia.
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After World War I, Britain and France carved up the Middle East between them.
No Afghan government has yet accepted the border drawn by Britain in 1893 that runs through the middle of the Pashtun tribal belt.
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Britain, by contrast, is a largely middle class country generally at peace with itself and run by an elected government.
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It displays a dead chicken in the middle of a table, around which sit six of Britain's most famous academicians.
Much of this is the work of Lt Gen Simon Mayall, Britain's defence senior adviser to the Middle East, appointed in 2011.
The UAE represents Britain's largest export market in the Middle East.
Britain had pulled its military forces out of the Middle East after the decision to retreat from east of Suez in the 1960s.
India had become steadily more difficult for Britain to rule and without India, British hegemony in the Middle East, deemed a core national interest until the disaster of Suez in 1956, was increasingly unsustainable.
Mr Rammell added that Dr Siddiqui's review, as well as other reports and conferences on Islam in higher education, suggested Islamic studies departments were concentrating too much on a Middle Eastern focus and ignore the realities of Islam in modern multi-cultural Britain.
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But, even pessimists would have hesitated to predict that Britain would still be struggling to put the crisis behind it, in the middle of 2012.
When Anthony Eden, the British prime minister, called Guy Mollet, his French counterpart, to tell him that Britain had agreed to an immediate ceasefire in Egypt, Mollet was in the middle of a meeting with Konrad Adenauer, the German chancellor.
Independence from Britain in 1947 brought partition, which created Pakistan but left Kashmir divided down the middle (both halves have a Muslim majority).
This was because it came in the middle of an official inquiry into the suicide of David Kelly, an expert on Iraqi weapons at Britain's defence ministry.
In Britain, according to one estimate published in The Financial Times this week, the typical middle-class working household will be 720 pounds worse off in real terms in 2012 than in 2009.
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Britain's Nick Faldo finished in the top 30, while Colin Montgomerie, in the middle of a terrible slump in form since he changed his clubs, came 31st.
Some Indian politicians and diplomats do not like Britain's large aid programme because this is not the image of a land with global middle class aspirations they want to project.
Cells of the network have been identified or suspected in countries throughout the Middle East and Africa as well as in Malaysia, the Philippines, Ecuador, Bosnia, Albania, Britain, Canada and even the United States.
Next to Britain, the U.S. has the largest number of Pakistani residents outside of the Middle East, part of a world-wide diaspora that represents the second-largest contributor to Pakistan's economy through the remittances they send back.
Britain's political parties, although deeply divided on most economic policy, are competing for a middle ground which demands action on pay.
Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
In this, Britain's prime minister was doing the opposite of what many other Europeans get up to in the Middle East.
But America and Britain have done the opposite, running current-account deficits so that central banks in Asia and the Middle East have accumulated claims on them instead.
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