Since September 11, British, or more accurately, Tony Blair’s foreign policy has been very much in the news. Prime Minister Blair immediately moved to the forefront of the international scene, providing strong political support for the US and, perhaps more importantly, playing a leading role both at home and abroad in explaining and justifying the war internationally. In the face of sceptical and potentially hostile opinion in the Islamic world, the Prime Minister often articulated the goals of the war – to quote the New York Times – more eloquently than President George Bush. He has also given major foreign policy speeches at the Labour Party conference in October and during his visit to South Asia in January.
