Blair rubbishes Corbyn

TONY Blair yesterday branded the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn in No.10 as “a very dangerous experiment”.

The former Labour Prime Minister gave the current party leader a kicking as he was quizzed about the Iraq War.

And Mr Blair dismissed suggestions that Mr Corbyn’s election as leader last year was a rejection of New Labour.

Mr Blair said: “It’s the way the world works these days.

“But it’s a big challenge for the centre. It would be a very dangerous experiment for a major Western country to get gripped by this type of populist policy-making, Left or Right.”

Mr Blair said Mr Corbyn was not up to the job of running the economy or maintaining Britain’s place in the world. He added: “The centre ground needs to work out how it gets its mojo back. “These guys aren’t providing answers, not on the economy, not on foreign policy.” And Mr Blair said the savaging he gets over the 2003 Iraq War has more to do with the Left’s dislike of him winning three elections on the trot. Mr Blair, who was Labour leader between 1994 and 2007 and served 10 years as PM, was speaking to Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s This Week’s World in advance of the publication of the long- awaited Chilcot report next month into the Iraq War.