It will all end in flames
He’s at it again. Tony Blair has decided to intervene. At a moment when Labour is struggling politically, he has chosen not to steady the ship, but to fire shots at those on board. What a day for LabourList to reveal he still polls as Labour members favourite leader. His latest essay argues “The Labour Party is playing with fire; or, more accurately, with its future, and that of the country.”...
Continue Reading on https://labourlist.org/James O’Brien has dismissed Tony Blair’s explosive criticism of the Labour Party as ‘insane’, revealing that he has lost respect for the former prime minister. On Wednesday, Blair published a 5,700 essay on his thinktank’s website in which he took aim at pretty much everyone and everything in the Labour Party. The three-time general election winner with Labour criticised a number of...
Continue Reading on https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/Keir Starmer and his leadership rivals must ditch Labour’s “self-delusion” to succeed, Tony Blair has said, in a highly critical essay in which he criticises ministers’ net zero policies and calls for the party to embrace AI. The former prime minister made the step of directly and in detail critiquing the record of the Labour government since it took office, urging Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting...
Continue Reading on https://labourlist.org/Tony Blair has launched a remarkable attack on the Labour party and Keir Starmer, accusing them of having no “coherent plan” for the Unite Kingdom and being anti-business. In a 5,700-word essay, published last night on his thinktank’s website, the former prime minister said any leadership change at the top of the party was “irrelevant if it doesn’t start with a policy debate”. Blair...
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