The baffling world of Labour’s election strategy

Why is it so striking that Tony Blair has said that Theresa May will be Prime Minister ‘if the polls are right’? On the surface, this appears to be a statement of the bleeding obvious, given the Tory party national poll lead isn’t exactly within the margin of error. Of course, around election time, politicians do develop the amazing ability to argue that the earth can in fact be flat, and in a normal election Blair might be focusing on talking about how Jeremy Corbyn can in fact become Prime Minister. His refusal to do that may have mildly surprised people.

Of course, what the former Prime Minister is really up to is trying to help his moderate colleagues still in Parliament who are arguing that Labour cannot win the election in a desperate attempt to save their seats. The Conservatives are trying to talk up Jeremy Corbyn as a potential Prime Minister to scare voters.