Blair's intervention on net zero offered Kemi Kaze an open goal at PMQs. Could she score?

On days like these, Keir Starmer might come to believe there is a God after all. Fair to say the prime minister has been under the cosh recently.

- John Crace

His popularity ratings tanking as people continue to feel fed up that nothing still appears to be working as it should. The local elections today are unlikely to provide any joy for Labour with Reform ahead in several polls. To cap it all, Tony Blair had just published a report on climate change that even his best friends might consider to have been "unhelpful". Tony is a former politician who is unable to go gently into the dark night. Eighteen years after stepping down as prime minister, he still yearns for relevance.

Attention, even. If he can't be meaningful, he can at least be a contrarian. A thorn in Labour's side, seeking retribution against imagined slights. Against Labour MPs, the overwhelming majority of whom weren't even in parliament at the time he left. Some were even in primary school.