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Former prime minister Tony Blair
LABOUR’S decision to mark May Day with a video from Tony Blair endorsing Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership prokoved criticism from trade unionists and peace campaigners today.
In the video, Mr Blair marks the 25th anniversary of Labour’s May 1 1997 landslide election win, listing achievements including introducing the minimum wage, peace in Northern Ireland, investment in public services and progress on women’s, ethnic minority and gay rights.
He praises Sir Keir for giving the party “a new sense of purpose and mission.”
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis