Tony Blair: Labour must back staying in EU to be 'competitive'

Tony Blair has said Labour must support staying in the European Union to "recover its strategic grip on affairs and be competitive".Mr Corbyn has been criticised in some pro-EU quarters for ordering his MPs to back the triggering of Article 50 to begin Brexit, but has insisted the will of the people in the referendum vote must be respected.Opinion polls have shown Labour trailing the Tories by up to 18 or 19 points in recent weeks, following the party's humiliating by-election defeat to Theresa