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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Caroline Davies

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

Keir Starmer talking to Tony Blair
Keir Starmer and Tony Blair in 2022. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

Tony Blair has continued his attack on the Labour government, saying it should be about “policy first, politics second”.

Hours after he published a scathing essay in which he warned that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” meant it was likely to lose the next election, the former prime minister said it should “take a step back, analyse the world”.

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