The piece of communist rubbish who is now Spain’s prime minister has called George W. Bush and Tony Blair “liars.”

“Mr Blair and Mr Bush must do some reflection — you can’t organise a war with lies,” he said in his first radio interview after ousting the ruling conservative People’s party in a Sunday election dominated by the terror attacks on trains that killed 200 Madrid commuters last week.

“The Spanish troops will come back,” he added.

His stinging comments caused political shockwaves across Europe and in the US. Sunday would go down in history as “the day when Islamist fundamentalism was seen as dictating the outcome of a European election”, said Wilfried Martens, the head of the European People’s party, an umbrella group for European conservative parties.

Jonathan Eyal, the director of studies at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said if al-Qaida were responsible for last week’s bombs, Spain had become the first country “to have a prime minister owing his position to Bin Laden”.