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 economy.

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

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…

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The former Labour premier, who led the country between 1997 and 2007, has delivered a damning assessment of the current state of his party.

The intervention by the former prime minister comes just weeks before a key by-election that could determine Labour’s future.