THE TELEGRAPH: Tony Blair has hailed the leadership of Gordon Brown, praising him for setting the country on the road to recovery after the financial crisis.
In his first intervention into the pre-election fray, the former prime minister declared he was ''optimistic'' about the prospects for the future under his successor.
Speaking to activists in his former constituency in Sedgefield, Co Durham, he hit out at David Cameron, dismissing the Conservative leader's ''time for change'' slogan as ''the most vacuous in politics''.
Mr Blair said that while Britain was not yet ''out of the woods'' following the financial crisis, it was ''on the path out'' as a result of the actions taken by Mr Brown.
''At the moment of peril the world acted. Britain acted. The decision to act required experience, judgment and boldness. It required leadership. Gordon Brown supplied it,'' he said.
Mr Blair acknowledged that it would be a "big thing" for Labour to win a fourth successive general election - something it had never achieved before. Tony Blair: Gordon Brown's leadership led us out of economic peril >>> | Tuesday, March 30, 2010
If the British electorate fall for this crap yet again, they deserve all they get! This is the government which has decimated the economy and taken so many freedoms away from the British people. The best thing the British electorate can do on polling day is vote this shower OUT OF OFFICE. By the way, Tone, if anyone's words are "vacuous", yours are! – © Mark
