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 overlooked falling living standards

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

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

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

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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 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…

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.

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 party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

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El ex primer ministro carga contra el Gobierno de Starmer y los aspirantes a sucederle y exige un “centro radical”

Andy Burnham accused former PM Tony Blair of not understanding inequality, as Labour grandee Lord David Blunkett hit out at the former Prime Minister's unhelpful timing

Andy Burnham hit out at Tony Blair today, saying the former Labour prime minister 'does not understand' people's lives.

Sir Tony Blair has entered Labour’s civil war - and his message is brutal: changing the leader means nothing if the party still has no real plan for Britain.