Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Why don’t today’s Blair enthusiasts like talking about his actual policies?
Neo-Blairites get strangely embarrassed by New Labour’s PFI schemes, NHS privatisation and Atos welfare checks, observes SOLOMON HUGHES
ACCORDING to right-wing pundits, the Labour leadership “is finally learning to love Tony Blair again.”
The promotion of centrist types like Wes Streeting to the shadow cabinet and Keir Starmer’s support for Blair getting knighted are the outward signs of a not-so-secret nouveau-Blairism flourishing at the top of Labour.
But these neo-Blairites don’t seem to take Blair on his own word. They rarely celebrate his actual policies, only his election wins.
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