Former PM Tony Blair Says Labour Needs 'Fundamental Reset'
Blair said Labour lacks a coherent plan and warned policies on taxes, welfare and net zero are hurting business confidence.
- On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair published a 5,600-word essay warning Labour is 'playing with fire' with the country's future, arguing the party lacks coherent policy and needs a 'fundamental reset' less than two years into the Starmer government.
- The intervention comes amid a brewing leadership crisis in Makerfield, where Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is positioned to challenge Sir Keir if he wins the June 18 by-election, while former health secretary Wes Streeting claimed Tuesday he has 81 backers for a leadership bid.
- Rejecting personality-focused solutions, Blair stated 'The Government's principal problem isn't Keir's personality' but the absence of 'a worked out, coherent plan,' and criticized the Workers Rights Bill and national insurance rise as creating 'headwinds, not tailwinds, to British business'.
- Cautioning against premature leadership change, Blair warned that 'trying to force the prime minister out without a clear policy direction is not a serious way of conducting ourselves,' emphasizing Labour must develop coherent policy before pursuing leadership contests.
- Beyond internal party dynamics, Blair framed Labour's policy crisis within Britain's deteriorating global standing, warning the country risks 'relegation from the Premier League of nations' and that simply reversing Brexit 'isn't the answer' as Britain remains 'too weak' to reset EU relations.
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elDiarioARThe former British Prime Minister and now protégé of Larry Ellison criticizes the current Keir Starmer, and his rivals in the leadership of the Labour Party for, according to him, going too far to the left and not having a clear plan for the countryTony Blair, the Labour star who fell by the invasion of Iraq and is now seeking redemption in the Middle East Tony Blair's usual residence in London looks very much like 10 Downing Street. The house o…
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Belfast TelegraphStarmer says he is ‘vindicated’ by change in rebuff to Blair criticism
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