David C Bannerman

The nightmare of Andy Burnham becoming PM has just been revealed in a single word. #DailyExpress #Echobox=1779872559" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">express.co.uk/finance/person…

I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly with Blair on this - he is making reasoned and common sense points. The most refreshing I have heard from Labour side for years.

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage has reported Hope Not Hate to the Charity Commission. This “charity” is accused of breaking rules by handing out leaflets urging votes for Labour and against Reform UK. Using charity money to play politics?

Sue Gray Ally Now Spinning for Burnham order-order.com/2026/05/27/sue…

#OnThisDay 31 years ago 'Motorail' services ceased: they allowed at their peak 100k passengers and their cars per year to travel the UK by train, although the GWR Night Riviera carried cars 1999-2005, providing a brief return of sorts. Dave Hitchborne buff.ly/s2QV0DK

The UK just recorded its ‘hottest ever May day.’ At Heathrow Airport, next to a runway full of jumbo jets. The same trick they pulled in 2022 at RAF Coningsby while fighter jets were landing. This is how the climate scare machine works. conservativewoman.co.uk/must-every-sun…

Everyone in Reform needs to calm down. SEE BELOW ⬇️ Much more serious than various unwelcome news events of recent days (like Restore's 7%) has been the headless chicken reactions of some in the party. The party urgently needs more structure - structures within which political and policy challenges are first discussed together and everyone then signs up to what are the agreed next steps. Anyone who subsequently acts unilaterally outside of these structures should then be sacked. This is basic stuff and can't happen soon enough.

Nor, by the way, did Blair do much to rein in the high-spending habits of his Chancellor, Gordon Brown, who came to office promising fiscal prudence yet left the country with a near £160 billion overdraft. Much of the damage, it is true, was done after Blair had left office, but Brown began to lose his fiscal discipline after 2001-02, the last year a UK government of any colour ran a surplus. Tony Blair was a better PM than any current Labour challenger would make. But we might be more inclined to listen to him if he admitted his mistakes in office. ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/tony-b…

Tony Blair: “I always used to say the greatest source of election-losing advice was the Guardian”

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STEPHEN POLLARD: If Rupert Lowe sets aside his vanity he could be the hero of the hour. If he doesn't, Britain faces disaster trib.al/kKpI6od

There is no sign of an 8% GDP hit or even 4% hit. As @LiamHalligan makes clear at Brexit Unbound Conference there is no evidence of any hit on the economy. This is Project Mislead at work.

Blair is making a lot of sense today.

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions: - welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap - defence spending is too low - the triple lock is unsustainable - without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution - we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea - migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state - any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement - we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable - Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly Blair basically says all that. The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind: - judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast - the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement. Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

How Labour and SNP governments are both trying to deceive us "Our politicians repeatedly seek to deceive the public using the debased coinage of false narratives. Both [Governments] deserve to be exposed for their duplicity and repudiated without reservation." My latest @TheScotsman column bit.ly/3Q5y00Z

Project Fear has given way to Project Mislead.

Yes, I get it, you all hate Tony Blair etc you’ll find loads to disagree with here I’m sure - but the quality of analysis of our problems and what any potential leader ought to be thinking about if they want to solve them puts this essay light years ahead of what any current contender for national leadership has offered. Anyone who wants to be an effective prime minister (including the current one) should read it

Brexit Unleashed conference: Sir Iain Duncan Smith @MPIainDS on What the Conservatives should be Saying on Brexit. Chaired by @TimScottUK youtube.com/watch?v=rQSafq…

NEW: Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground. In highly unusual intervention for a past PM, he warns the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means it is likely to lose the next election. In a scathing 5,700-word attack, Blair argued for government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil & gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump 👇 theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

New: Tony Blair says Labour is “playing with fire” and risking the country’s future by changing prime minister “The Labour Party is playing with fire; or, more accurately with its future, and that of the country.”   “Whether there is a leadership change or not is irrelevant if it doesn't start with a policy debate.” “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.” Blair also blasts Keir Starmer’s government for being too left-wing “The Government is governing from an essentially traditional Labour ‘soft left’ position, parked firmly in the Party’s comfort zone… in the last Budget, it appeared as if we were increasing tax to pay for additional welfare spending, when the public already thinks welfare bills are too high” Via @LucyGJWhite >> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…