We’re four days into 2018 and Tony Blair has kindly graced the nation with his first Brexit intervention of the new year. Proving old habits die hard, the former Prime Minister has written a blog criticising the government’s handling of Brexit. Blair claims Theresa May is on course to negotiate a deal that is the ‘worst of all worlds’ – allowing the Government to claim Brexit victory but in reality meaning the UK has lost its seat ‘at the table of rule-making’.
However, the main target for his ire is Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. Blair claims the party’s confusing ‘cake and eat it’ approach of leaving ‘the’ single market but being in ‘a’ single market means ‘the handmaiden of Brexit will have been the timidity of Labour’. He urges the party to adopt a new approach, campaign for a second referendum and fight for European reform – thereby making Brexit an issue owned solely by the Conservatives.
Now there’s probably a higher chance of Dennis Skinner joining the Tories than Jeremy Corbyn taking advice from Tony Blair.
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