Sir Tony Blair was Britain’s most successful Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher, and the only Labourite to lead his party to three consecutive national victories.

Last week, he published a 5,600-word essay that made big news, harshly criticizing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government for being out of touch with Britain’s economic realities. He called for the scrapping of Net Zero carbon goals because he could not “see the logic” behind them, given that Britain accounts for only 1% of global emissions. The U.K. “needs cheap energy, energy that allows us to power the AI revolution,” he said, pointing to untapped North Sea oil and gas.

His plan for reforming Britain also includes:

• Slashing obstacles to business growth.
• Radical reform and deregulation of the planning system.
• Cut taxes for working people.
• Fundamental reform of welfare, which would include benefit cuts accompanied by more emphasis on apprenticeships and job training.
• Reconfiguring the National Health Service to emphasize disease prevention as much as cures.
• Have the government do “whatever it takes” to address illegal immigration, while at the same time encouraging targeted immigration to spur economic growth.

The overall goal, Blair argues, should be a “reimagined State in which taxes and spending can be lower, productivity higher and government seen as enabling not directing… a radical restructuring of the state.”

Britain needs that and so do we!

Sadly, Blair’s entreaties are likely to fall on deaf ears. Starmer is impotent and has shown no sign of being able to rally people behind any change. Andy Burnham, the Labour figure who’s plotting an internal coup to oust Starmer from power, says he wants to run a government based on what he calls “business-friendly socialism.”