This has led to terrible consequences for the poor, for working families and for the public sector and public spending. And all of this without a party’s forceful desire for positive change that supported Blair as party leader and prime minister. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony Blair and David Cameron during The State Opening of Parliament. It may be seen that Cameron’s personal failures were his party’s saving, a fate in reverse for Blair and Labour. Panicked by the laughably insignificant threat of Ukip’s one member of parliament, in promising a referendum he made the worst political misjudgement since Suez.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2016 12:33 UTC