article_snippet.sent: After Tony Blair’s speech in Tony Blair’s former constituency of Sedgefield last week, the former PM made an appearance at a low-key private fundraising dinner for 15 Labour target seats.
article_snippet.sent: But despite the fact that Tony Blair’s has a record of three general election victories, only one Shadow Cabinet minister, Chuka Umunna, could be bothered to attend.
article_snippet.sent: During a dinner held in an Indian banquet hall in Morden, Blair (pictured last week in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham) name-checked Ed Miliband only once, devoting Ed Miliband instead to Ed Miliband own achievements .
article_snippet.sent: The dashing Shadow Business Secretary is being mentored by Lord Mandelson, the former Blairite Cabinet minister, who wants to see The dashing Shadow Business Secretary as the next Labour leader.
article_snippet.sent: The programme for the dinner, held in an Indian banquet hall in less-than-glamorous Morden High Street, South London, was littered with errors and even misspelt Umunna’s name.
article_snippet.sent: A clearly uncomfortable Tony Blair’s name-checked Ed Miliband only once, devoting Tony Blair’s speech in his former constituency of Sedgefield last week instead to his own achievements.
article_snippet.sent: Bizarrely, Tony Blair’s shared a stage with musician Steve Brookstein, who won the first X Factor ten years ago but whose career sank even faster than Blair’s popularity.
article_snippet.sent: last record (Brookstein had a box full of them to give away) is an apt metaphor for Tony Blair’s in the eyes of the current Labour Party.
article_snippet.sent: Brookstein said: ‘Tony Blair’s dripping with blood, pockets stuffed with gold beyond dreams of avarice, comes out fighting for New Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon’s claim that Red Ed Miliband
article_snippet.sent: ‘stabbed his own brother in the back’ to lead Labour, and would do the same to Britain by negotiating away Trident, will help the Tories.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The manner in which Red Ed Miliband defeated Red Ed Miliband brother is regularly brought up on the doorstep with Labour canvassers and crystallises discomfort with the idea of Red Ed Miliband as an untrustworthy leader,’ the website says.