BLAIRITE “bygones” who have spent weeks stabbing Ed Miliband in the back will be told today: End your shameful attacks and join Labour’s fight to turf out the Tories.

Writing in the Morning Star, Labour MP Ian Lavery confronts the right-wing critics for “actively trying to derail any chance of a Labour government in May.”

The former miner says Mr Miliband has however proved himself a “tougher adversary” than expected in the face of the latest onslaught in the gutter press.

And Mr Lavery issues a rallying call for party unity as the countdown to a crucial election reaches 89 days.

“Ordinary people in communities up and down the country simply cannot take another five years of this monstrous, unholy Tory-Liberal alliance,” he writes.

“They need a Labour Party with radical policies that will help them and their families.”

The chair of Labour’s trade union group of MPs steps into the battle after a Blairite assault on Mr Miliband for moving away from new Labour’s toxic legacy.

Former health secretary Alan Milburn last week claimed Labour’s focus on saving the crisis-stricken NHS put it on course to lose the general election.

He lashed out after Mr Miliband promised Labour would end NHS privatisation and instead fund improved services through taxes on mansions and tobacco giants.

It would be a “fatal mistake” for Labour to appear as “the party that would better resource the NHS but not necessarily put its foot to the floor when it comes to reforming it,” Mr Milburn claimed.

But Mr Lavery points out that the ex-minister has “made a fortune working with private health firms” as a consultant.

He also calls out other “Blairite bygones” who have helped fuel Tory attacks by “stirring up malcontent within the ranks” of the Labour Party.

“Prince of Darkness” Peter Mandleson, former health secretary John Hutton and former home secretary Charles Clarke have all recently made unhelpful attacks against their own party.

Shaming the culprits today, Mr Lavery writes: “Some of those being lined up at present to attack the party undoubtedly walk the same walk as the tax-dodging billionaires.

“Some are precluded prima donnas desperate for another second in the spotlight. Some are both.

“Hypocrisy, shameless self-promotion and delusion seem to be the name of the game for these bastions of the bygone Blair era.”

Unite leader Len McCluskey has also urged Ed Miliband to ignore the “blasts from the past.

“Labour doesn’t need the Blairite grandees — the people who sucked the life out of the last Labour government — attacking every progressive impulse, like the mansion tax and saving our NHS,” he told members on Monday.

“So I say to Peter Mandelson, Alan Milburn and John Hutton: stick to counting your 30 pieces of silver that you got from the bosses, who you’ve always represented, and stop stabbing Labour in the back.”

nMr Lavery is among more than 20 Labour MPs who are sponsoring today’s launch of the party’s Left Platform.