Former party leader and prime minister says there is no logic in party moving back to tax-and-spend policies of 1980sTony Blair has issued his most impassioned appeal for Labour not to repeat the mistakes of the 1980s by adopting a traditional leftist platform,saying the party could suffer four successive election defeats if it does so.
In his first intervention in the Labour leadership election, the former prime minister said a shift to the left after the party’s crushing general election defeat would be to treat voters as if they were silly.
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Source: theguardian.com