Riven with irrationality

Tony Blair ‘planning major intervention’ over Labour’s future

Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is said to be pulling together a policy plan to “save the Labour party” amid frustrations over Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

The former prime minister is reportedly looking carefully at a number of candidates for leadership campaigns as reports in The Times suggest he is dissatisfied by the direction of Sir Keir’s government.

Sources said November’s Budget had “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”, adding Sir Tony had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer over recent months.


So Tony Blair expects to have his clammy hand on the Labour tiller but Starmer isn't responding. Not a huge surprise, but it is interesting if Blair has all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer over recent months. It reinforces something we've seen for quite a while - Starmer is absurdly intransigent.

Also interesting is that Blair has chosen to point out what sane folk have always known, the supposed basis of Ed Miliband's energy policy is "riven with irrationality". It's worse than that, but it's a start.

Sir Tony said in a TBI report: “People know that the current state of debate over climate change is riven with irrationality … any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.”