Starmer launches long defence of his record when asked about former PM’s essay critiquing current government

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

After less than two years of Labour in office, Tony Blair's verdict could hardly be more damning.

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

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

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…

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

The prime minister ‘doesn’t agree with much’ of Sir Tony Blair’s scathing 5,700-word essay

Starmer launches long defence of his record when asked about former PM’s essay critiquing current government

Keir Starmer has defended his record in government after former PM Tony Blair claimed the current Labour Party lacks a coherent plan, while Andy Burnham said Sir Tony had…

PM says predecessor misunderstands government’s successes and ‘very different’ situation compared with 1997

La respuesta de Starmer se produjo tras la publicación de un extenso ensayo donde Blair cuestionó la falta de dirección del actual gobierno, en un clima de presión interna y…

The Labour Party turned on Sir Tony Blair once again this week for committing the cardinal sin of stating the bleeding obvious.