Labour faces election defeat at the hand of a Boris Johnson-led Tory Party unless it abandons Jeremy Corbyn’s “revolutionary” politics, Tony Blair has warned. In an interview with the HuffPost UK news website, he said the former foreign secretary was a “formidable campaigner” who would pose a powerful challenge to Labour at a general election. “If you have a Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party, he’s a formidable campaigner, he’s an interesting personality, he can get out there and do his stuff, for sure,” he said. Boris Johnson is a a ‘formidable campaigner’, according to Tony Blair (Peter Byrne/PA)“I have absolutely no doubt that if you have a right-wing populism against a left-wing populism in this country, the right-wing will win. “You suddenly offer them a revolutionary alternative from the left, what makes you think the people who voted Tory are suddenly going to go for that?

Source: Irish Examiner March 31, 2019 18:56 UTC