Blair insists on supporting Miliband claiming misinterpretation of Labour ‘left-wing’ remarks

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Tony BlairFormer Labour leader Tony Blair has insisted of fully supporting the current leader of Labour Ed Miliband on Wednesday after a suggestion that expressed his doubt on the likelihood of the party winning May 2015 election.

During an interview with The Economist, Mr Blair had said that the next general election could be one “in which a traditional left-wing party competes with a traditional right-wing party, with the traditional result”.

When asked if he meant a Conservative win, the former Prime Minister has responses positively saying: “Yes, that is what happens.”

Mr Blair, who was the prime minister of Britain from 1997 to 2007, has told: “I am still very much New Labour and Ed would not describe himself in that way, so there is obviously a difference there.

“I am convinced the Labour Party succeeds best when it is in the centre ground.”

Mr Blair – the last Labour leader to win a U.K. general election in 2005, has stressed the importance of Labour “not alienating large parts of business, for one thing”.

The current leader of opposition has committed his party to what many commentators see as left-wing policies like a freeze on energy prices and the reinstatement of the 50p top rate of income tax.

Later on, Mr Blair has tweeted: “My remarks have been mis-interpreted, I fully support Ed and my party and expect a Labour victory in the election.”

However, the debate has been heated up following the remarks, as Mr Miliband’s close ally and vice-chairman of the election campaign, Lucy Powell told of having a “great deal of respect” for the former Labour prime minister but he was a politician from a “different era”.

She has said: “He has experience from his era. That is not the era we are now living in.”

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