LONDON: Tony Blair, who led Labour to victory in three UK elections, called on the party on Tuesday to shun the temptation to move left or reverse Brexit to shore up its fortunes, and to concentrate on policy rather than personality. As Labour gears up for a possible leadership contest, Blair, the party’s longest-serving premier between 1997 and 2007, spoke out in a more than 5,000-word essay, taking aim at Prime Minister Keir Starmer and two of his rivals, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and former health minister Wes Streeting.

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

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

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…

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on Wednesday in the Labour Party's internal crisis with an essay of more than 5,600 words published on the website of his…

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

El ex líder del Labour, que consiguió tres victorias en las elecciones británicas, apuesta por un acercamiento con Donald Trump

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

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

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…

Former PM urges party to take a step back and ‘analyse the world’ amid speculation over Keir Starmer’s leadership

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

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has lashed out at the current Labour leadership, accusing it of having no coherent plan in a brutal 5,700 word essay which sparked a fierce…

Der frühere britische Premierminister lässt kaum ein gutes Haar an Keir Starmer oder seinen Konkurrenten innerhalb der Partei.

The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott