UK News: Ex-PM issues highly unusual intervention with 5,700 word essay and accuses Starmer, Burnham and Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk
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Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In his Today interview, Tony Blair said the government should have done more to prioritise growth when it took office. He also suggested the pensions triple lock was not sustainable.
He said:
When it came in, it saw the state of the inheritance. I think at that point, of course, it would be difficult. Everything in politics is difficult, but if I’d been them, I’d say, look, all of these commitments, they may be very worthwhile. There may be proper commitments in easy times, but in these hard times, we’ve got to prioritise growth. We’ve got to prioritise support for the business sector, and this artificial intelligence revolution, we’ve got to grasp it, both its opportunities and its risks, with both hands.
And so, I think, yes, it would have been tough, but I think you could have explained to the country why it was necessary …
Let’s be clear, I don’t think Labour won the last election because people read the manifesto and said, ‘this is what we want’.
I think people thought that Conservatives have behaved completely unacceptably, and to Keir Starmer’s great credit, the Labour party was an acceptable alternative. Continue reading…
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