Is Blair planning a return to government?

 

Tony (Tory) Blair

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you." Sir Steer Calmers rehabilitation of Sir Tory Blair, gathers pace as they both share a stage at the Future of Britain event in London.

Tory-lite Starmer, is the first Labour leader to share a stage with Blair, since he left office to line his pockets, sixteen years ago. There had been calls for Blair to be put on trial for war crimes, after he took us into a phoney war against Iraq in 2003. Blair has recently been campaigning for greater private sector involvement in the NHS.

There have been reports in the press that Starmer is planning to give this much "derided carpetbagger" a peerage if Labour gets elected to office at the next general election. Some are even speculating that he will then offer Blair, a cabinet post in his government.

If Blair does join a Labour government, you can expect closer ties with the E.U., creeping privatisation of the NHS, a hard-line on welfare benefits and job seekers, and the return of Lord Levy. Blair has already told Sir Steer Calmer, that what he'll inherit from the Tories, is pretty grim. That could signal the end the triple-lock formula for increasing state pensions. Both are saying the party needs to take tough decisions.