Tony Blair said there needed to be a movement that started to “build support for finding a way out from the present rush over the cliff’s edge” Victoria Jones/PATony Blair has called for a cross-party movement to fight Brexit admitting that the “debilitation of the Labour Party” he once led had become a “facilitator” of Britain’s departure from the European Union. In a keynote speech in the same London location where David Cameron announced his plan to hold an EU referendum, Mr Blair lambasted the government for not being in control of the Brexit process. He reserved his strongest criticism for his old party, now led by Jeremy Corbyn, who he said were no longer a credible opposition to the forces that were intent on a hard Brexit. “Consider for a moment the surreal situation in which our nation finds itself,” he told an audience of pro-European supporters and the financial news agency…

Source: The Times February 17, 2017 12:00 UTC