‘Choose your direction first’: Blair says Labour needs debate before selecting new leader – UK politics live

Ex-PM issues highly unusual intervention with 5,700 word essay and accuses Starmer, Burnham and Streeting of putting Labour’s future at riskTony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpTony Blair has also given an interview to Times Radio. In it, he said the government should abandon its net zero target – implying that, if that meant Ed Miliband felt obliged to resign as energy secretary as a result, he would not view that as a problem.Asked if he was proposing getting rid of Miliband’s net zero targets, Blair replied:Yes, I am, and I’ll tell you