Tony Blair returns to politics after 10 years

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is planning to return to politics, ten years after he let office as prime minister. 


Blair pledged to re-enter politics, even if he gets a 'bucket of wotsit' thrown over him, insisting that derailing Brexit is not 'defying the will of the people'.
According to him, he would not return to Parliament but Brexit had persuaded him to rejoin the political scene, although he admitted he finds it hard to be hated by some people.
He called on Labour voters to consider backing pro-EU Tories and Liberal Democrats and insisted that Brexit was 'bigger than party allegiance' and even suggested voters look at who is their most pro-EU candidate locally - even if they are Tories.

'You need to get your hands dirty and I will. This is not about defying the will of the people. It is saying the will of the people may change when they see the final deal,' he told the Daily Mirror on Sunday.:

'My prediction is it may take another generation but at some point we will want to be back in the EU', he added.

Speaking on the Brexit deal, he said;

'We don't know yet what the final deal on Brexit will be. We are advocating a very simple British common sense position, which is to say: 'Let's see what the Tories come up with first'. Because there is a bit of the Tory Party determined to deliver Brexit no matter what the cost.

Blair said he had put £10 million into his institute to pursue his causes and to support younger politicians.