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Great piece from Raphael Behr in the Guardian yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/tony-blair-keir-starmer-tv-series-new-labour-1997-landslide
This bit will be especially familiar to those of us actively involved in Labour:
There’s a less tangible measure too. The Labour party of the mid-1990s was truly sick of losing, and ready to do whatever it took to win. Blair joked at the time that this may have been the only reason so many Labour members voted for him. They had had enough of the internal battles; they were ready to look outward and adapt to the electorate. Across the party, there was a consensus that their earlier detour to the ideological fringes had been a costly mistake... that argument has not been settled in today’s Labour party.
I've been watching the Blair / Brown documentary. You really get a sense of how much harder it is to set the agenda these days. It even made me begin to understand Johnson's leaping on the Brexit bandwagon despite being more european than I am.