The Labour party should do more to support US wars while promoting fossil fuels and AI if it wants to win the next election, Tony Blair has suggested.

In a 5,700-word essay for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the former prime minister said the party had abandoned the so-called “radical centre” and gone too far left.

Blair criticised new workers’ rights laws, an above-inflation increase in the minimum wage, and a reform of non-dom tax status, saying they were bad for British businesses.

And as Britain experienced its hottest ever May temperatures, Blair called for the party to abandon parts of its net-zero commitments.

“We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources,” he said. “This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI.”

Blair, who many believe is a war criminal because of his role in the illegal invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, also wrote that the UK should have done more to help Trump wage war on Iran.

He added that strengthening the “American relationship… means building defence capability and being prepared politically to argue for the alliance even when controversial, of which Iran is the latest example.”

The US is “the dominant force” in the Anglo-American partnership and “therefore is the ‘shot-caller’”, he said.

Blair also said the Labour party was wrong to take what he described as a ‘soft left’ position while in power. “The government is governing from an essentially traditional Labour ‘soft left’ position, parked firmly in the party’s comfort zone.”

Labour lost nearly four times more voters to the Greens than to Reform UK in the May local elections, YouGov found.

Only 46% of those who voted for Labour in 2024 remained faithful to the party in 2026, with 22% defecting to the Greens and only 6% switching to Reform, the polling revealed.

Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East, wrote on X: “Tony Blair has nothing to offer Labour in 2025.

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