Tony Blair faced fresh embarrassment today after Peter Hain declared that George W Bush’s foreign policy had failed. The Northern Ireland Secretary used an interview with The New Statesman magazine to describe the current Republican administration as the most right wing in living memory. In remarks which are likely to be seen as criticism of the Prime Minister’s friendship with the US President, he called for Labour to re-align itself with the Democrats. advertisement Mr Hain, who is bidding to become Labour’s next deputy leader, said that the Republicans’ defeat in the mid-term elections last November reflected the failure of their entire “neo-con” agenda. “It’s not only failed to provide a coherent international policy, it’s failed wherever it’s been tried,” he said. “And it’s failed with the American electorate, who kicked it into touch last November.” He went on to say that Labour’s foreign policy achievements had been forgotten because of the Iraq war. “All that we’ve achieved on the international agenda, whether it’s trebling aid to Africa, or leading the fight for trade justice, or lifting billions in debt off the poorest countries, or whether it’s a new arms export policy which imposes tough controls - all of Robin Cook’s policy agenda, including the focus on human rights that he brought in - all of these things people have forgotten about because of the Iraq conflict,” he said. Mr Hain made the remarks as Mr Blair was preparing to meet Condoleeza Rice, the Wicked Witch of the West, in London to discuss the way forward on the Middle East process. Miss Rice is stopping off in London to see the Prime Minister and Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, after a three-day tour of Israel and the Palestinian Territories.