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.”

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

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…

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

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".

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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.

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

Number one bogeyman of the left, Sir Tony Blair, trained his guns on Labour this morning, launching a glorious attack. The former prime minister laid into his party over the full…

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

Nessuno viene risparmiato nel saggio pubblicato dall'ex primo ministro, che invita a ripensare le politiche laburiste su welfare e green. Anche sulla Brexit, c…