The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister issues a scathing indictment of Starmer’s government – and warns that the UK cannot even discuss rejoining the EU until it regains its lost strength

The former PM said Britain is in a "long slide towards relegation from the Premier League of Nations.”

Former UK prime minister launches scathing attack on ruling Labour party and leadership issues

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

In a damning assessment, the former prime minister said Labour has retreated into a Left-wing 'comfort zone', with ministers more interested in increasing welfare than boosting…

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister issues a scathing indictment of Starmer’s government – and warns that the UK cannot even discuss rejoining the EU…

Editorial: In an extraordinary intervention, the most successful leader in the party’s history says it is only by embracing the ‘radical centre’ that either the party or the…

In an astonishing attack, former Labour PM Tony Blair said his own party had an 'almost infinite capacity for self delusion' as he accused the Government of having no coherent plan

Un lungo saggio in cui demolisce quello che sono oggi diventati i suoi colleghi di partito. Il Regno Unito, per l'ex premier, rischia di diventare irrilevante. E non fa sconti a…

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Tony Blair has said that Keir Starmer should have immediately dropped manifesto pledges which have "undermined business confidence".

Former PM Tony Blair's 5,000-word essay laid into Labour at a time where the party is contesting a heated by-election that could decide the party's immediate future

Former prime minister says party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ means it is likely to lose the next election

Tony Blair has accused Starmer, Burnham and Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk amid leadership speculation