27/05/2026
I listened to Tony Blair on BBC Radio 4 this morning deliver this damning appraisal of what we all knew anyway…
This is what the Telegraph had to say:
Blair: Starmer has no plan for Britain
Sir Tony Blair said Labour’s principal problem was not Sir Keir Starmer’s personality, but rather his policy failures.
Nick Gutteridge
Chief Political Correspondent
On Sunday, a euphoric Sir Keir Starmer watched his beloved Arsenal lift the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years. Two days later, he was fighting off claims from Sir Tony Blair that he was leading Britain towards relegation from the top flight of nations.
The former prime minister delivered his football-themed warning in an excoriating 5,700-word essay that went in studs up on Starmer’s record in office and cast doubt over his future as the country’s manager.
Central to his criticism was that the Prime Minister, who won a landslide victory two years ago on the back of a pledge to transform Britain, had no plan actually to do so. Instead, he said, the Starmer administration had retreated into Labour’s classic Left-wing “comfort zone” of high taxes and red tape, which had crippled growth.
Blair did not spare Labour’s leadership hopefuls either. He warned it would be “dangerous” for the party to lurch to the Left under Andy Burnham, and derided Wes Streeting’s focus on rejoining the EU, saying it “isn’t the answer” to Britain’s problems.
Until now, the former prime minister had largely kept his criticisms of the Government to himself, but with the party embroiled in a leadership crisis, he has seemingly run out of patience. Now, the gloves are
