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Tony Blair Speaks Out Against His Party — but Still Won’t Choose Honesty

The former British prime minister’s criticisms of Labour Party policy suffer from a lack of self-reflection.…

Tony Blair says he is all about the future – but his vision is woefully stuck in the past | Jonathan Freedland

He insists he is so right but gets so much badly wrong, not least the absurdity that the UK should have joined Donald Trump in the quagmire that is Iran, says Guardian columnist Jo…

Martin Rowson on Tony Blair’s prescription for young people – cartoon

The former prime minister has criticised today’s Labour party and been met with scorn…

Should Labour heed Tony Blair?

Life for Britons is much harder than it used to be – and Blair has ignored that, says Burnham

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour…

Starmer defends policy decisions as he hits back at Blair

Former Labour PM Sir Tony Blair has accused the government of having "no coherent plan" for the country.…

It’s time to bring back Blair

Wes Streeting casts off ‘Blairite’ image with scathing attack on Tony Blair

The former health secretary and Labour leadership hopeful has attacked Sir Tony Blair’s 5,600 word essay for failing to mention ‘inequality’ and taken a side swipe over the Iraq wa…

Tony Blair scolds Britain’s Labour Party for policy failures in a fast-changing world

Former PM says party should look to Canada and centrist governments of Europe as models…

‘Stuck in his glory days’: Blunkett and others cast doubt on Blair’s advice to the Labour party

Ex-PM perceived as out of touch and having a credibility problem even if parts of analysis are seen as hard to dispute…

The Guardian view on Tony Blair’s advice for Labour: policymaking like it’s 1999 will not lead to a revival | Editorial

Editorial: A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now…

Tony Blair’s last-ditch attempt to save the technocratic order

The former PM’s overpraised essay refuses to reckon with the chasm between elites and the masses.…

Nicola Jennings on Tony Blair’s critique of Labour policy – cartoon

The former PM gets full marks for being unhelpful as he tells Labour to move closer to Donald Trump and abandon its net zero ambitions…

‘Worry no longer, I am back’ – Tony Blair’s Why I Have Always Been Right About Everything, digested by John Crace

Former PM’s essay on Labour’s self delusion shows he is the perfect person to provide such a critique…

Will Tony Blair's intervention change the Labour debate?

While the former PM still has some admirers in Labour, others wings of the party are not listening.…

Treasury ministers hit back at Blair over claims on tax and energy – UK politics live

Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson criticise some of the arguments in ex-PM’s 5,700-word critique of Labour Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Tru…

Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him | Larry Elliott

The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott…

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector…

Labour must put policy first, politics second, Tony Blair says

Former PM urges party to take a step back and ‘analyse the world’ amid speculation over Keir Starmer’s leadership…

From AI to net zero and migration: Tony Blair’s 10-point-plan to fix Britain

Sir Tony’s more than 5,000 word essay included a 10-point plan to return to the ‘radical centre’ and win a second term in government…

Blair: Labour is playing with fire over UK’s future – and is too weak to rejoin EU

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister issues a scathing indictment of Starmer’s government – and warns that the UK cannot even discuss rejoining the EU until…

Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and move firmly to the right

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election…

Tony Blair’s essay on Labour failings gets full marks for being unhelpful

Intervention by former PM feels almost designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party…

At least 15m Britons not saving enough to retire, Pensions Commission says

Just 4% of self-employed workers are putting cash into pensions, with ‘large groups across the UK facing a severe cliff-edge’ Millions of people across Britain are facing a “cliff …

'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms

Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens…

‘Unhelpful and ill-informed’: Charities slam Tony Blair think tank report on disability benefits

The former PM’s firm put forward an ‘emergency handbrake’ plan for welfare spending…

‘Unhelpful and ill-informed’: Charities slam Tony Blair think tank report on disability benefits

The former PM’s firm put forward an ‘emergency handbrake’ plan for welfare spending…

'Emergency handbrake' needed on sickness benefits, Blair think tank says

The Tony Blair Institute says people with conditions like anxiety should get employment support instead of cash benefits.…