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What the papers say: Blair has himself to blame for Brexit

Time is running out to halt Brexit. That was Tony Blair’s dire warning on the airwaves yesterday, as the former prime minister once again waded into the referendum debate to say that: ‘2018 will be the year when the fate of Brexit and thus of Britain will be decided’. Unsurprisingly, his warnings have not gone down well in today’s newspapers.

The Sun says that Blair’s ‘stomach-churning dishonesty on Brexit was putrid even for him.’. The paper says that the worst thing about Blair’s intervention was ‘his feigned concern for democracy’ in trying to insist that voters should be allowed another say on Brexit. Despite what he might say about his intentions, ‘this faded snake oil salesman’ is only interested in one thing, says the Sun: trying to block Brexit and ‘reverse the tide of history’. But what Blair needs to realise is that the outcome of the referendum vote was ‘in part the final revolt against Blair’s disastrous misjudgements’.

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