With his latest witterings on Brexit, Tony Blair is fighting a war against his own irrelevance – and losing

‘With an earnest self-importance undimmed by his wilderness years, Tony Blair brought Oscar Wilde to mind today as another of his anti-Brexit rockets exploded on the launch pad.
“Each man kills the thing he loves”, wrote Wilde in the Ballad of Reading Gaol. If anyone killed our EU membership, or at least is guilty of its manslaughter by gross negligence, it was Blair.
He no more accepts that than his folly in Iraq. If he has any capacity for genuine regret, he reserves it for his priest. Outside the confessional, he remains staunchly self-righteous.
In a Sunday Times online article and on Andrew Marr’s breakfast sofa, Blair proposed that Brexit could be averted if a way can be found to limit EU immigration. How this could happen within the confines of freedom of movement and of work, those two immovable foundation stones of EU membership, he didn’t explain.’
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