{"id":27310,"date":"2026-05-27T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27310"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:37:06","slug":"tony-blair-tells-starmer-to-move-closer-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/?p=27310","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair tells Starmer to move closer to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/26\/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blair argued for the government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil and gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27312\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/26\/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27312\" class=\"wp-image-27312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blair-called-for-closer-ties-with-Trumps-White-House.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blair-called-for-closer-ties-with-Trumps-White-House.avif 1240w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blair-called-for-closer-ties-with-Trumps-White-House-300x240.avif 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blair-called-for-closer-ties-with-Trumps-White-House-150x120.avif 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blair-called-for-closer-ties-with-Trumps-White-House-768x614.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair called for closer ties with Trump\u2019s White House.<span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap; color: #a9a9a9;\"> Photograph: Yoan Valat\/Reuters<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>His essay, a highly unusual intervention for a past\u00a0Labour\u00a0prime minister, is likely to draw a furious response from across the party, where Blair\u2019s legacy remains highly contentious. On Tuesday, one senior source accused him of abandoning social democratic values to embrace an agenda that had \u201cno answers\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Blair argued for the government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil and gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump. His essay, a highly unusual intervention for a past\u00a0Labour\u00a0prime minister, is likely to draw a furious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/?p=27310\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27314,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions\/27314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.rs\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}