Senator McCain will be meeting with Tory leaders :

John McCain, the popular Republican senator and likely US presidential contender, has agreed in principle to speak at the Conservatives’ annual conference in October, underlining the restoration of the party’s international credibility.

Securing Mr McCain as the star turn in Bournemouth would be a coup for David Cameron, who has paid little attention to world affairs since becoming Tory leader in December and has not yet been to Washington.

The Arizona senator is the frontrunner in the race to become the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election and has been a sharp critic of aspects of the Bush administration’s war on terror.But the Tories are likely to bill Mr McCain as the coming man, with whom Mr Cameron could eventually do business if both were to win power. “They can have a previous president,” said a senior Conservative figure. “We’ll have the next one.”

British Conservatives may want to start following US politics a little more closely?before crowning our next president for us.