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LONDON — Tony Blair launched a devastating broadside against the Labour government on Wednesday, warning that his own party is “playing with fire” and risks relegating Britain from the “Premier League of nations.”
In a blistering 5,700-word essay published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the former prime minister accused Labour of suffering from an “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” just under two years since Keir Starmer led the party to a landslide victory, forming the first Labour government in 14 years.
The intervention comes weeks ahead of a by-election, which could see Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham return to parliament and potentially challenge Starmer for the leadership of the party.
But Blair, who highlighted his three-time win record, argued that rather than “Keir’s personality” or “a failure to communicate,” the current government’s main affliction is the total absence of a “worked-out, coherent plan for the country.”
