Boris Johnson would beat a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party at the next general election, Tony Blair claimed last night.

The former prime minister, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, said that a Johnson-led government would win if Labour retained Mr Corbyn’s “revolutionary” politics.

“If you have a Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party, he’s a formidable campaigner, he’s an interesting personality, he can get out there and do his stuff, for sure,” Mr Blair told HuffPost UK. “But you’ve got to be in the position as a Labour Party, where you’re offering a sensible, coherent alternative that is different and progressive. I have absolutely no doubt that if you have a right-wing populism against a left-wing populism in this country, the right-wing will win. So it depends