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Earlier this week the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Dai Havard, accused Tony Blair of having a "misdirected obsession" with publicly agreeing with American foreign policy.

He wrote:

We need you to change the "realpolitik" not by retaining the delusion that you "have the ear of Bush", but by stating what is morally, politically and strategically right.

When it comes to Blair's relationship with Bush, the President's ear is not the orifice that first comes to mind.