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Former Labour leader and Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair is set to continue his attacks on Labour today with a series of TV appearances. He has accused his old party of having no “plan” to govern Britain – and said potential leadership candidates hoping to replace Sir Keir Starmer,such as Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting, have failed to come up with ideas either.

Sir Tony said: “Trying to force the prime minister out before we know what policy direction we’re bringing in is not a serious way of conducting ourselves.”

And he warned: “The government’s principal problem isn’t Keir’s personality. Or a failure to communicate ‘our achievements’. Or a need to assert more strongly Labour’s ‘values’.

“It is because we don’t have a worked-out, coherent plan for the country in a fast-changing world and are in the wrong political position from which we can devise one and win a second term.”

Sir Keir Starmer will today continue his efforts to prove he is getting on with the job despite choas in his party when he meets the Polish President and former Eurocrat Donald Tusk to sign a security deal.

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