‘Alice in Wonderland’ Jeremy Corbyn appeal warning

Tony Blair has warned Labour supporters to reject the “Alice in Wonderland” appeal of Jeremy Corbyn or risk driving the party into an abyss.

The former prime minister conceded appeals from himself and ex-leaders Gordon Brown and Neil Kinnock appeared only to have emboldened those who have propelled the veteran MP from rank outsider to frontrunner to succeed Ed Miliband.

He accepted he had as yet failed to understand the “powerful” phenomenon behind the serial rebel’s popularity . But he mocked those behind it for embracing a “politics of parallel reality... in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all”.