Saturday 2 July 2022 11:03 PM Sir Keir would be like a puppet to 'El Presidente' Tony Blair under Lab-Lib ... trends now
Sir Keir Starmer would be nothing but a puppet Prime Minister in a weak coalition government where Sir Tony Blair would 'call the shots', it was claimed last night.
Senior Tories said Sir Keir would be just the 'humble CEO to El Presidente Blair' in a minority government propped up by the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party.
They raised fears that would be the result of Labour limping into power on the back of a 'secret' electoral deal to con the British electorate and deny the Tories a Commons majority at the next election, in a return to the days of the Lib-Lab pacts of the 1970s.
The warning comes just days after Sir Tony fuelled talk of a comeback into the front-line of British politics by hosting a 'Future of Britain' conference which included a call to change the UK's voting system.
Sir Keir Starmer would be nothing but a puppet Prime Minister in a weak coalition government where Sir Tony Blair would 'call the shots', it was claimed last night
Last night, Tory MP Richard Holden (above) told The Mail on Sunday: 'It seems increasingly obvious from last week's Blair revival act that this is all designed to lead to a puppet Starmer government in which the current Labour leader acts as the humble CEO to El Presidente Blair'
Sir Keir's Labour and Sir Ed Davey's Lib Dems (leaders above, in June) were accused of a secret 'Rainbow Alliance' electoral pact that helped both parties inflict defeat on Mr Johnson's Tories in two by-elections last month
Broadcaster Andrew Neil wrote in yesterday's Daily Mail that the former prime minister was 'already on manoeuvres' as part of a 'new mission' to oust Boris Johnson at the next General Election by masterminding a centrist movement that is likely to eventually attempt to reverse Brexit.
Mr Neil said the aim of the 'convocation of Remainers' was to 'begin the process of drawing up a new agenda for the centre and centre-Left' which would likely reopen the question of Brexit 'somewhere down the road'.
Sir Keir's Labour and Sir Ed Davey's Lib Dems were accused of a secret 'Rainbow Alliance' electoral pact that helped both parties inflict defeat on Mr Johnson's Tories in two by-elections last month.
Both Labour and the Lib Dems denied that. But it has sparked Tory fears the two rivals will repeat the 'grubby backroom pact' tactic at the next General Election to deny the Conservatives a majority at Westminster.
The Mail on Sunday has been told that senior Liberal Democrat strategists have discussed
