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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

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

Blair in a dark suit and tie looks directly at the camera
‘He is becoming less and less relevant,’ was one of the more polite responses about a man who left frontline politics nearly 20 years ago. Photograph: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

Did Tony Blair ever mention he was quite good at winning elections? If you happened to miss it, then his 5,700-word opus on where Labour, Keir Starmer and the UK more generally have gone wrong is here to remind you. Several times.

“I led the Labour party for 13 years and through three general elections,” goes the second sentence. Further on, Blair laments that when the party tries to puzzle out how to win a second term, the one thing ruled out was “learning from the only time in the party’s 120-year history it has ever done so”.

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