Tony Blair: ‘Brits have the right to rethink Brexit’

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Speaking to FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair makes one thing clear: He is on the campaign trail, determined to give Brits the right to vote on Brexit again, potentially reversing the decision taken in the June 2016 referendum.
The former British leader is convinced that “Brexit is very bad for Britain and I think it’s bad also for Europe”. Although Britain’s divorce proceedings from the European Union have already started, Blair insists it's not too late to go back on the decision.
“It’s not too late, we don’t leave until March 2019, and up until that point, we’ve got the right to rethink."

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[DOBERMAN]

TONY BLAIR IS STILL ON THE EU, S PAYROLL.

[gwmkiwi]

I can not believe you would give this man air time

[sasua]

The most unpopular Prime Minister in 2018

[Alx_Mk]

Crying out loud, stop giving this man a platform. Even if he occasionally is correct that doesn't mean we should be normalizing him. The British people overwhelmingly want him locked up, seems our democracy has no rights there.

[DanDmana]

Long before he was PM, when he was first elected as an MP.  Tony Blair stood on an anti EU manifesto, saying that the EU had taken our natural resources and taken our jobs.  What has changed?  What is different now?  Tony Blair is now a very wealthy man, that's one obvious change that I can see.

[joeking]

Well tony, we Brits had the right to rethink YOU and so we did. It is time for you to evaporate

[tracibeacer]

What ever this man says do the opposite and you will succeed in life..

[Iazzaboyce]

We know Tony Blair has amassed a personal fortune of sixty million pounds from his career in British politics, but how did his political career benefit the British people?

[peterkelly]

We have a Right to Justice, but you have not been arrested for the War Crimes you have committed and you are still a free man walking around a free man with British Security as a protection detail at the expense of the British Tax Payer

[bobhead]

if i hear the bus argument again i will go mad. he didn't mention the lies from the other side.

[asnowman]

Tony Blair is hated by the left and right alike in the UK. The EU couldn't have a less well respected cheerleader XD

[singularecertamen]

I can't even be bothered to listen to him, I just wanted to see the comments section. And by the way Blair I believe I made the right descision the first time round and you least of all people would change my mind. A Proud Brexiteer

[garylewis]

"we voted to leave Europe." factual inaccuracy from his first breath

[marwill]

Tony, you where a mistake for great britain, but you where democratically voted in, the referendum on brexit was a democratic vote and i think we should give the result which was out a try, i dont think brexit will be any worse for the country than when you where prime minister of this country, what a disaster that was

[acpren]

I could have predicted this moment and so could most people see this coming. The people already voted.

[barbarossa]

The 350m is not there because we are still -paying- being robbed by membership fees!

[ericneal]

A rebate on our contributions to the EU was won in 1984 by Margaret Thatcher. However Mr Blair described it as an "anomaly that has to go" and in 2005 gave up large chunks of it in return for a vague promise of a root-and-branch reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), which has never happened.
To date this appears to have cost the British taxpayer £17.4 billion yet Blair now tells us in this interview we should remain in the EU and reform it. He tried to reform the CAP and was conned by our friends in the EU, so I presume the start of this reform of the EU would be the return of our £17.4? Surely a question that any impartial interviewer should be asking of Blair when he states Brits need to rethink Brexit?

[ADJPaul]

He almost Bankrupt the country. then Quit when the banks went bankrupt.
Get him off All Media and Internet. We do not wish to see or hear him.
what happened in the war crimes case ?

[grazzitdvram]

They voted wrong! Time for another vote!

[migtrewornan]

He didn't seem to care about our democratic rights when he was handing them over to unelected commissars (sorry "commissioners").