Minister rejects Blair intervention, accusing ex-PM of retreading old arguments – UK politics live

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In his interview on the Today programme, Tony Blair said Labour won the election in 2024 because it was “an acceptable alternative” – not because voters liked what was in its manifesto.

He said:

Let’s be clear, I don’t think Labour won the last election because people read the manifesto and said, ‘this is what we want’.

I think people thought that Conservatives have behaved completely unacceptably, and to Keir Starmer’s great credit, the Labour party was an acceptable alternative.