Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of Starmer’s premiership, but there is another candidate for that position, and a more convincing one at that. On the website of his eponymous institute, Tony Blair has published a long essay which reminds us of

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

Intervention by former PM feels almost designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party