Tony Blair's "honeymoon" as prime minister is over amid a Tory revival, Conservative leader William Hague has told party fund-raisers.

Mr Hague branded Mr Blair an "extremist" who opposed mainstream public opinion on the single European currency.

And he said the prime minister had failed to deliver on a raft of policies such as law and order and the health service.

Mr Hague told the Tories' Winter Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London: "The moment for Conservative revival has come. Every day brings fresh evidence that Tony Blair is what we all know he is, all mouth and no delivery."

'Battle ahead'

The Tory leader said the government had not fulfilled its promises on the health service, police numbers and bogus asylum seekers.

He said Labour had put up tax on petrol, pensions, business, marriage and mortgages, but joked that people could avoid such taxes: "You'll be fine if you don't drive, don't drink, don't smoke, don't need a mortgage, don't need your own pension and don't get married.

"In other words you'll be fine as long as you're Gordon Brown."

Mr Hague forecast there would be a "great battle ahead" on the euro.

The Tories had been told they would be on their own when they ruled out joining the euro for two parliaments two and a half years ago, he said, adding: "Today, thanks to the work of our party, and of many business leaders, it is Tony Blair who is on his own."

'Cheap insults'

Cabinet Office minister Mo Mowlam derided Mr Hague's claims that a Tory revival was on the way.

She said: "It is time for William Hague to realise that cheap insults and lame jokes cannot make up for his complete lack of political judgment.

"While his party - with the Thatcherites in the driving seat - is lurching to the right, Labour is delivering for Britain."

Labour had "delivered" the minimum wage, working families tax credit, minimum income guarantee for pensioners and the New Deal for the unemployed, she said