Blair rage

TONY Blair is Labour’s most successful election winner.

that have blighted the party’s two years in power, ministers and MPs had better listen.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking.Tony Blair’s 5,600-word diagnosis is a sobering read for those in Labour’s leadership battle that has left the country in limbo Credit: PA Sir Keir Starmer wearing glasses and a dark blue shirt.Blair warns Labour is ‘playing with fire’ by trying to oust Keir Starmer without a proper plan Credit: PA

His 5,600-word diagnosis should make sobering reading for those engaged in the depressing leadership battle which has left the country in limbo.

Blair nailed the chief mistakes.

Raising taxes on working people to fund welfare for those who don’t.

Allowing free rein on Net Zero — especially the .

Governing from the “comfort zone” of the soft-left and forcing through an .

And an unbending and rejoining the EU which even Blair — a die-hard Remainer — says is pointless while the economy remains sluggishly weak.

Change, he insists, begins at home.

Instead, Britain faces being “marooned on an island of irrelevance”.

By selfishly and recklessly without a proper plan, Blair says his party is “playing with fire; or, more accurately with its future, and that of the country”.

Economically illiterate . He’ll indulge their fantasy and feed their addiction to more tax and more welfare.

Blair says without radical thinking Britain will “slide towards relegation from the Premier League of Nations”.

Labour MPs cheerleading for Burnham could end up as doomed as .

Abandoned

THE Government’s wholesale abandonment of nearly one million jobless kids is staggering.

Since 2019, the number of young people getting with no requirement to look for work has doubled to 300,000.

who are claiming and benefits still make claims a decade later.

But as former Labour minister Alan Milburn says in his forthcoming report into the problem, at least half COULD return to work.

Instead, they have just been left to rot.

Right a wrong

IT’S not often that The Sun applauds the Attorney General, Lord Hermer.

But for once he has listened to public opinion and rightly referred the sickeningly lenient sentences of .

Listening to the testimony of their traumatised victim on TV reduced Cabinet minister to tears.

Anyone reading the shameful reasoning of the judge who presided over this case may well weep for British justice, too.