Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is positioning himself to return to politics, seeking an office close to Parliament to shape the Brexit negotiations, according to a report.
Blair is understood to have held talks with senior British ministers and officials recently to engineer a comeback, The Sunday Times reported.
Blair’s operations team is reportedly considering three potential sites for a new office near Westminster to relocate his 130 staff.
“He’s not impressed with Theresa May. He thinks she’s a total lightweight. He thinks [Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn’s a nutter and the Tories are screwing up Brexit. He thinks there’s a massive hole in British politics that he can fill,” a source told the newspaper.
Since leaving Downing Street in 2007, Blair has largely remained disengaged in British politics because of his controversial instigation of the country’s involvement in the US-led war in Iraq.
The former Labour politician has…