{"id":27147,"date":"2024-07-07T18:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=27147"},"modified":"2024-07-07T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:10:32","slug":"ex-pm-blair-lays-out-advice-to-britains-new-leader-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/ex-pm-blair-lays-out-advice-to-britains-new-leader-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PM Blair Lays Out \u2018Advice\u2019 to Britain\u2019s New Leader Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair made an early intervention in British politics on Sunday after Keir Starmer\u2019s landslide election victory, urging him to have a \u201cplan to control immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blair warned Starmer, who will visit Scotland on his second full day as prime minister, that the anti-immigration Reform UK Party also posed a challenge to Labour, not just the Conservative Party.<br \/>\nThe Reform UK party, led by Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage, maximized the damage to the Conservatives at the election by splitting the right-wing vote.<br \/>\nIt won five seats in the Westminster parliament and 14 percent of the vote, prompting Farage to warn that it will target Labour voters next.<br \/>\nIn a piece headlined \u201cMy advice to Keir Starmer,\u201d Blair wrote in the Sunday Times that \u201call over the western world, traditional political parties are suffering disruption.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhere the system allows new entrants to emerge, they are running riot everywhere. Look at France or Italy.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need a plan to control immigration. If we don\u2019t have rules, we get prejudices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair made an early intervention in British politics on Sunday after Keir Starmer\u2019s landslide election victory, urging him to have a \u201cplan to control immigration.\u201d Blair warned Starmer, who will visit Scotland on his second full day as prime minister, that the anti-immigration Reform UK Party also posed a challenge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27149,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions\/27149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}