Sir Tony Blair might return as some of the highly effective figures in ­politics if Sir Keir Starmer leads Labour to an election victory.

The prospect has sparked fears of nearer ties with the EU.

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is seen as an concepts manufacturing unit, with cabinets of ready-made insurance policies for a future Labour Government.

The Institute final week set out proposals for a brand new “special partnership bet­­ween the UK and the EU”.

It requires the Government to decide to align British laws on items and meals security requirements with these of the EU.

Specu­­lation surged final week that Sir Tony – who turned 70 in May – might return to frontline politics when Sir Keir didn't rule out a peerage for the previous chief so he might serve within the Lords.

Former setting secretary Theresa Villiers stated: “The return of Tony Blair’s influence is another reason why a Labour government would be bad for Britain.”

Nick Wood, a former communications director for the Tories who now chairs the MIP public relations agency, stated: “The most worrying aspect of Blair exercising serious influence over Starmer is that Blair is obsessed with Europe.

“The real project will be dragging Britain back into the Euro-pean orbit.”

However, a senior Labour supply stated Britain has modified radically since New Labour of the Nineteen Nineties.

“There’s no future in the past. The world Blair inhabited is alien to the world the new Labour government will inherit.”