Tony Blair has called for “serious statesmanship” in negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Blair insists a Eurosceptic ‘Brexit Minister’ would be the wrong choice to conduct talks with the EU.

In an article that will inevitably be seen as an offer by Mr Blair to play a part in the negotiations, the former prime minister says: “There is going to be a negotiation of extraordinary complexity where there are a thousand devils in every detail... This needs serious statesmanship.”