Tony Blair explains how Labour can win power again during GMB appearance

Tony Blair has told Good Morning Britain how he believes Labour can win back voters following a crushing defeat at English local elections.

The former Prime Minister told Susanna Reid and former Labour strategist Alastair Campbell that the party and Sir Keir Starmer needed to present itself as a “centre ground, you’re a moderate, forward-thinking political party”.

The ex-leader also released a stinging criticism of the party in an opinion piece for the New Statesman, saying that the party needed “total deconstruction and reconstruction”.

He wrote: “political parties have no divine right to exist and progressive parties of the centre and centre left are facing marginalisation, even extinction, across the Western world.”

What did Tony Blair say on Good Morning Britain? 

The former Labour leader was asked by Campbell if he believed that the Labour Party could win another general election.

Blair, who won three general elections, responded that the party needed to reclaim the centre ground.

He blamed the party’s shift to the left for the Conservative Party’s current dominance.

Blair said: “If you go back 120 years in Labour's history there are three occasions in which the far-left have got near to the leadership of the Labour party; 1935, 1983, 2019. All of them have been the worst defeats we’ve had, but only in the last defeat, 2019, did the far-left actually capture the leadership of the party itself.

Tony Blair suggested that Sir Keir Starmer needed to present a clear alternative vision to Jeremy Corbyn, stating: “you can agree with Jeremy Corbyn, don’t agree with him, but it was a dramatic change in the type of Labour Party that had been put forward and when you do something like that you can’t just recover easily, you’ve got to spell out what is now different.

"It’s not just a different leader, the question is what’s your vision for the country? Where do you stand as a Labour Party? Are you still with that left agenda?