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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

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

Sir Tony Blair has warned that Labour is “playing with fire” and risks doing long-term damage to both the party and the country unless the government undergoes a fundamental reset.

In a major intervention, Labour’s most successful former leader and prime minister urged the party to return to its “radical centre” and warned that the country was in a “mess” because the party had failed to put policy first and politics last.

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