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

Politics The Guardian By Peter Walker Senior political correspondent 26 May 2026 21:00 1 min read

Intervention by former PM almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump 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 sentenc

Intervention by former PM almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

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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