Change or Labour party will die, warns Tony Blair after UK election results

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour's most successful election winner, on Wednesday urged moderates in the party to grab back control from leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose brand of "quasi-revolutionary socialism" had failed.

Outgoing Labour leader Corbyn has called for a period of reflection on Thursday's election defeat, Labour's worst result since 1935, though a battle is now underway for control of the party with Corbyn's hard-left loyalists unwilling to let go.

"The takeover of the Labour Party by the far left turned it into a glorified protest movement with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government," said