What UK’s change of guard means for Middle East ties

LONDON: It is a measure of the importance that successive UK governments have placed on close economic and political ties with the Gulf, to say nothing of Britain’s historic connections to the region, that since 2007 and the premiership of Gordon Brown, British prime ministers have paid no fewer than 34 official visits to the Gulf states — three more than the total number of trips made to the US in that time.

What UK’s change of guard means for Middle East ties
LONDON: It is a measure of the importance that successive UK governments have placed on close economic and political ties with the Gulf, to say nothing of Britain’s historic connections to the region, that since 2007 and the premiership of Gordon Brown, British prime ministers have paid no fewer than 34 official visits to the Gulf states — three more than the total number of trips made to the US in that time.

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