Chris Johns

He's written a five and a half thousand word essay on what Labour needs to do.

And essentially he says Labour needs to get off its arse, stop looking inwards and look outwards.

The inward looking stuff is all about process, procedure and being lefty.

and his message is, if Labour thinks that the right turn that British politics has taken with the rise of reform, and indeed restore, I think it's called, Rupert Lowe's party, and the rightward lurch of the Tories, the evisceration of the political centre, particularly the centre-right, if Labour thinks, says Blair, that moving left, which seems to be

Burnham's thesis is going to work, think again.

And on this one, I think Blair is absolutely right.

He's getting pilloried in the press for being Britain's new version of Donald Trump for some reason.

He's certainly said some pro-Trump things.

He certainly, as always with Blair, he wants Britain to stay close to America.

But we've also had Rishi Sunak, another ex-British prime minister on the airwaves today, talking specifically about financial literacy issues.

And I'll mention that in a moment because that in and of itself is really interesting.

But listening to both Blair and Sunak talking today on the various programs that they've been on about the British political scene,

I was struck by just how similar they sound.

Really, now that they're out of office, they occupy the same sort of, you know, centrist dad space.

And Sunak in particular sounds a very different man to the one that led the Conservative Party and his attacks on wind power and solar power.

Well, no, it's a comment about politics, isn't it?

And what happens to politicians on their way to the top?

I think, and this is affecting Burnham as well, and it affected Sunak, is that you have to adopt policies that attract voters.

In the first instance, you have to adopt policies that attract your party, because these are the internal processes and procedures that are...

alluding to earlier on of the Labour Party, is that you've got to get members of the Labour Party to vote for you if you want to become leader, if you want to become prime minister.