Tony Blair Slams Labour For 'Playing With Fire' In Attack On Starmer And His Rivals

The ex-Labour prime minister said the current coup was "not a serious way of conducting ourselves".

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Tony Blair has warned Labour is “playing with fire over its future” following the latest efforts to oust Keir Starmer from office.

The comments mark the first major intervention from the former Labour prime minister, who won three general elections and sat in No.10 for a decade, since the party’s landslide victory in 2024.

The highly unusual warning comes after close to 100 Labour MPs publicly called for Starmer to resign in the wake of the party’s shocking defeat in the May elections in England, Wales and Scotland.

Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary days later and is now expected to challenge Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham for the leadership title, if the latter wins next month’s Makerfield by-election.

While the starting gun on any such contest is yet to be fired, there’s no doubt that Starmer’s future is hanging by a thread.

In a new essay, Blair urged the party to rethink its strategy........

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