But Blair, who highlighted his three-time win record, argued that rather than \u201cKeir\u2019s personality\u201d or \u201ca failure to communicate,\u201d the current government\u2019s main affliction is the total absence of a \u201cworked-out, coherent plan for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the essay, he urges Labour to avoid a drift to the left and instead to push for a \u201cradical center\u201d policy agenda if it is to hold on to power, including grappling with artificial intelligence policy, capping pension spending, and easing restrictions on oil and gas drilling.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrying to force the prime minister out before we know what policy direction we\u2019re bringing in, is not a serious way of conducting ourselves,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n
Blair took direct aim at the cornerstones of modern Labour policy, attacking a host of top officials and their signature initiatives: Energy Secretary Ed Miliband\u2019s net-zero targets, Chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019 business tax policy, and former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner\u2019s workers\u2019 rights package.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaken together, these measures have given headwinds not tailwinds to British business despite the macroeconomic gains for which the chancellor is rightly praised,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n
Potential challengers to Starmer also came in for a lashing. He blasted Burnham for drifting leftward on tax and spend, and critiqued the more centrist Health Secretary Wes Streeting over capital gains tax and EU relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Blair, who highlighted his three-time win record, argued that rather than \u201cKeir\u2019s personality\u201d or \u201ca failure to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7786,5172,2096,3795,94,225,4429,73,91,5,6,4108],"class_list":["post-49968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-andy-burnham","tag-angela-rayner","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ed-miliband","tag-keir-starmer","tag-oil","tag-pensions","tag-tax","tag-tony-blair","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wes-streeting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116646492417500484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}