Jeremy Vine

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Newscast · Old Newscast: How Labour Won In 1997 (Part 1) · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And I said, I think it'll be Tony Blair.

So it was kind of obvious that Blair was the only one who was going to do it.

Yeah, it was a shock and it was terrible.

I remember that because I remember them.

Prescott said we all look like the mafia here because they were all dressed in black coming out of this beautiful church.

And it was, you know, the funny thing about it, Kirsty, I called my grandmother who's dead now, but she was, you know, classic granny figure on the right, you know, and she was in tears.

And I thought Labour are now central to British political life.

I would disagree on.

I think Smith to Blair was a change from old labour to new labour.

I just think that the whole maxim of the Smith labour was one more heave and it quite possibly wouldn't have worked.

Yeah, you just come on.

We lost in 83.

We lost in 87.

We lost.

They had they had obviously lost in 92 as well under Kinnock and they to major incredibly.

And then they think, OK, well, one more push will do it with the same stuff.

And it was Blair who said, no, we've got to completely change the party for better or worse, because they obviously I think they're still reeling from the effect of having Blair as leader who arguably wasn't part of the Labour Party at all.

I was going to say the opposition, of course, was William Hague and the Conservatives.

And William Hague later described himself as being on the night shift.

And I had to go to that first Conservative conference in 1997 where they were wiped out.

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