Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the party he once led for ¡°playing with fire¡± in its attempt to oust current premier Keir Starmer, while also slamming the government for lacking a clear agenda.
In a 5,600-word essay penned for his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, he said Labour needs to move toward ¡°radical centrism,¡± prioritizing cheap energy over clean energy, fundamentally overhauling planning regulations, putting economic growth at the heart of policies and cutting welfare spending.
¡°The government¡¯s principal problem isn¡¯t Keir¡¯s personality,¡± Blair wrote in the essay, published late on Tuesday. ¡°It is because we don¡¯t have a worked-out, coherent plan for the country in a fast-changing world and are in the wrong political position from which we can devise one and win a second term.¡±
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