Yet Britain may come to miss the high profile that Mr Blair's hyperactivity gave it.
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Yet Britain looks increasingly likely to hold its first televised debates among prime ministerial candidates during the general-election campaign due to start shortly.
Yet Britain's ministers say that any new nuclear plants must make do without the vast amounts of public money they have consumed in the past.
Yet Britain's deregulated energy market, in which consumers are free to shop around among a variety of energy providers, is held up by many as a model.
Yet if Britain is closer to the exits than before, politicians do bear the blame in one important way.
Yet in Britain, only doctors, not paramedics, are trained to intubate a group of patients who often need it most - people with head injuries who aren't completely unconscious.
Yet youngsters in Britain struggle harder than their peers in most rich countries to secure what jobs are available.
The firm's takeover of Harcourt has yet to clear Britain's competition authority.
Mr Blair's comments in Brazil suggest that the ground is also being prepared for a quite different verdict: that the euro is not yet ready for Britain.
Yet politics in Britain has long been thought relatively clean.
He says the Board is made up of delegates from synagogues and community organisations, yet many of Britain's 300, 000 Jews are not members of such groups. had married non-Jews.
But this influence did not stop Congress passing the Dodd-Frank act, has yet to stop Britain's planned divide between commercial and investment banking, and has not held up a host of new EU regulations.
The treaty-signing demonstrates yet again that Britain increasingly looks to the EU and multilateral institutions as its closest partners, not the U.S., which Brown earlier in the year pointedly called Britain's most important bilateral relationship.
America's directly elected Senate, more powerful than the House of Representatives, probably holds few lessons for Britain because the United States has a directly elected president and thus full separation of powers, which no one is yet advocating in Britain.
Chief executive Richard Burge said the outbreak was a "crisis" for rural Britain yet ministers had refused to free up time "reserved merely for debate on a bill which will not help a single rural family and which would, if enacted, inflict yet another assault on their communities".
Yet some question whether Britain truly has the ability to fend off American regulation if there is an exchange merger.
Yet the experience of Britain's few existing mayors suggests there are ways of grabbing influence even when formal powers are lacking.
Yet in America and Britain, among other countries, house prices are already close to record levels in relation to average incomes.
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Yet countries such as Britain, Denmark and Sweden have perfectly understandable political and economic reasons for holding back for the time being.
Across Europe, there are fears that Germany is becoming too powerful and Britain could yet be seen as a counterbalance to Germany's growing influence.
Yet the fact that Britain has recently been involved in two troop-heavy counter-insurgency campaigns does not mean that all or even most future conflicts will be similar.
Pharmaceutical companies, already humbled by the fines for the vitamin cartel, became the target of yet another investigation in Britain, earlier this month, into the alleged price-fixing of generic drugs.
Critics point out that they have yet to discern what benefit Britain's economy will gain from the Romanian deal.
Yet of the Europeans only Britain and France (with Germany coming up behind) have troops that can be moved anywhere in significant numbers and kept supplied for any length of time.
But the most poignant fact to emerge from this survey of 13 countries is that two years of New Labour's attempts to project a more modern, dynamic, creative image of Britain have not yet made much impact.
Did anyone in Britain really need Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary, to remind them, as he has just done at yet another relaunch of the Britain in Europe campaign, that millions of jobs depend on Britain's access to the mainland?
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