When the remain camp needed a hero, it got Tony Blair | John Crace

‘Rise up,’ implored the former Labour PM. He was the wrong man at the wrong time, but he wasn’t going to let that stop him It might have been the slap, but the eyes seemed more sparkly and the face less cadaverous than the last time Tony Blair appeared in public, after the publication of the Chilcot report. This was more the Tony we used to know and love. Or hate. When the former Labour prime minister is in full-on messianic mode, he doesn’t particularly mind which. He is