article_snippet: Labour indicated that Mr Blair will also play a role in the election campaign, despite having made clear that Mr Blair disapproves of Mr Miliband’s Left-wing stance.
article_snippet: Mr Blair intervention will be seen as a sign that the former prime minister is keen to mend fences with a party leadership that has publicly distanced His intervention from the former prime minister creation, New Labour.
article_snippet: Although Mr Blair has said Mr Blair has no desire to return to front-line politics in the UK, friends say Mr Blair is distressed by the way the party Mr Blair led to three election victories has turned the party he led to three election victories back on Mr Blair.
article_snippet: Mr Blair is known to have backed Mr Miliband’s elder brother David for the Labour leadership in 2010.
article_snippet: And Mr Blair has made little secret of Mr Blair dismay at the way Ed Miliband has dragged Labour to the Left and alienated business.
article_snippet: In December, Mr Blair warned that the tactics were likely to lose Labour the election, telling the Economist magazine that the election was shaping up to be one ‘in which a traditional Left-wing party competes with a traditional Right-wing party, with the traditional result’.
article_snippet: Asked if Mr Blair meant a Tory win, Mr Blair replied:
article_snippet: ‘clarified’ Mr Blair comments the next day, saying Mr Blair had been ‘misinterpreted’ and that Mr Blair wanted and expected Ed Miliband to seize power.
article_snippet: A Labour spokesman last night welcomed Mr Blair’s intervention, adding: ‘
highlights_snippet: Labour also indicated Mr Blair will play a role in Labour election campaign .
  
highlights_snippet: Mr Blair has had a strained relationship with current Labour leader Ed Miliband .