Editorial: A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now

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

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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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.

Sir Tony’s more than 5,000 word essay included a 10-point plan to return to the ‘radical centre’ and win a second term in government

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.

His ideas are either vacuous, or commercially suspect, or irrelevant to the modern period

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

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

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,…

Editorial: A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now

Ex-PM perceived as out of touch and having credibility problem even if parts of analysis are seen as hard to dispute