Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the party he once led for “playing with fire” in its attempt to oust current premier Keir Starmer, while also slamming the government for lacking a clear agenda.
In a 5,600-word essay penned for his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, he said Labour needs to move toward “radical centrism,” prioritizing cheap energy over clean energy, fundamentally overhauling planning regulations, putting economic growth at the heart of policies and cutting welfare spending.
“The government’s principal problem isn’t Keir’s personality,” Blair wrote in the essay, published late on Tuesday. “It is because we don’t have a worked-out, coherent plan for the country in a fast-changing world and are in the wrong political position from which we can devise one and win a second term.”
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