Tony Blair published a 5,000 word essay on his Institute's website, criticising Keir Starmer for abandoning the "Radical Centre", and not having "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."
But most of the commentary about the essay missed that Blair was making a play to set the agenda for the next government, regardless of whether that is Labour or Reform.
By pitching his political agenda as non-political — "where you put policy first and politics last" — it puts Blair above politics, as sovereign who decides what constitutes legitimate political action.
Blair already vandalised our constitution, entrenched the civil service as a permanent bureaucracy unaccountable to ministers, and "rubbed the right's nose in diversity" with unprecedented demographic change.
Any party willing to take his advice cannot be trusted to form a government. The legacy of Blair must be repealed.
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