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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer discuss politics during the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain Conference in central London, July 18, 2023
TONY BLAIR’S phone has been ringing red hot with Sir Keir Starmer seeking his advice, the present Labour leader revealed today.
Sir Keir confessed that he talked to his predecessor “a lot” and found the conversations “really helpful” as he hopes to move into 10 Downing Street.
Reinforcing fears that a Starmer government will be a New Labour rerun of inequality and war, Sir Keir told Channel Five TV: “I talk to Tony a lot about the period just before 1997 because, obviously, I’m very interested in talking to people who have won elections and taken a party from opposition into government.
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR