After mixed weeks for Labor, with lawmakers voicing concerns about Starmer’s call, but the party managing to regain the seat of Wakefield’s “red wall” in a run-off election, Blair said the leadership needed to be attractive. new policies. Although Blair said Starmer “did an amazing job, given what he inherited after the Corbyn years”, he warned that there was still confusion among voters about what the party under control was. Speaking ahead of a conference hosted by his institute, the former prime minister told BBC Radio 4 Today: “The Labor Party itself says: ‘We will set a political agenda later this year and next’. way, this conference, I mean the ideas we present are available to anyone. “The next election, in my opinion, will be for both Labor and the Conservatives, because I think people will think, ‘Yes, okay, in the first place, we have to oust the Conservatives.’ “But before they make that change, they need to be confident about Labor.” Mr Blair believed that Starmer was “absolutely capable of doing this”, but added: “We have to be completely honest with ourselves. “If we want to win, it will be based on the fact that the people are absolutely clear about what the Labor Party is and what it represents.” Mr Blair, a longtime critic of Starmer’s predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, said he had been approached in the past about “whether they should start a new party”, but said: “I did not take part in creating a new party”. If Labor continued to be led by someone in the party’s “Corbyn wing”, Blair said “British policy should have somehow disintegrated”. But he rejected the need for a new party, given the Starmer record so far. “I think the Labor Party has regained its basic balance and clarity,” Blair said. “To be fair to Starmer, when you think about what he inherited, what he has done, I think he has made tremendous progress.” Mr Blair emphasized the need to focus on climate change, and said that it was even more important now with the crisis in Iraq. Subscribe to the First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7 p.m. BST He said: “My view of the Labor Party is the center-left modern progressive political party in the next elections, and this is clear to people with a long-term agenda. [Starmer] he has all the chances to win “. The Labor Party was boosted last week by regaining its long-held Labor seat in Wakefield, which they took back from the Conservatives as a sign that the party is penetrating the former heart that collapsed in the 2019 election. The debate over Tory lawmakers seeking to leave Labor has also boosted party spirit. However, Starmer faced some difficult weeks, given the repulsion that barred frontbenchers from joining the picket lines during the rail strikes. He had to tell his shady closet to stop calling him boring, after a series of negative updates.
