Tony Blair has urged Labour to 'emphatically reject' wokeism and push the party's hard-Left factions 'to the margins' if it is to win power again.
The former prime minister urged Sir Keir Starmer to continue to bring Labour back to the middle ground.
He warned that a 'lurch to the far Left... will never be electorally successful' following the Labour's 2019 election drubbing under Jeremy Corbyn – its worst performance since 1935.
His call comes in a foreword to a report which suggests Labour will need a larger vote swing to win the next election than was seen during Mr Blair's landslide victory in 1997.
Mr Blair said the electoral picture for Labour had been made worse in recent years by the fact that working-class loyalty to the party had ebbed away.
Canvassing from Deltapoll – which questioned more than 2,500 former Labour voters and more than 3,000 who remained loyal – discovered that more than 11 million who had previously voted Labour did not do so in 2019, with 5.5 million turning to the Conservatives.
Former prime minister Tony Blair (pictured) urged Sir Keir Starmer to 'emphatically reject' wokeism and continue to bring Labour back to the middle ground
Mr Blair argued the party has a 'culture problem with many working-class voters' and a 'credibility problem' with those in the centre of the political spectrum.
Setting out a four-point plan for how Labour can return to government, Mr Blair – who was in Downing Street for a decade – said leader Sir Keir should 'continue to push the far-Left back to the margins' of the party.
He also argued that so-called 'woke' views should be rejected.
'We should openly embrace liberal, tolerant but commonsensical positions on the 'culture' issues, and emphatically reject the 'wokeism' of a small, though vocal, minority,' said Mr Blair.
He said any future policy agenda should be centred on 'an understanding of how the world is changing', suggesting that the 'technology revolution should be at the heart of it'.
Mr Blair also pressed for the 'best and
