Jeremy Vine

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Newscast · Old Newscast: How Labour Won In 1997 (Part 2) · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

I was there, so I was sent there in the early hours of the morning and I had to stand with that extraordinary group of people, Mandelson dancing with Kinnock, do you remember?

And then they kept saying, Blair's coming, Blair's coming, he's not coming.

It just took ages because I wanted Dimbleby to throw to me to say, and Blair's arriving.

So I had finally got to where the party was, albeit eight hours later than I should have been.

And the thing that I realised, and I should have realised the significance of this at the time, was that Blair's arrival was being delayed so that he could step onto the stage just as the first ray of sun hit the stage.

So we already had dawn, it was light, but he hadn't got the sun.

And that, you know, when you think Gordon Brown, when he became prime minister, the very first press conference he did, his whole head was hidden by a pillar.

Yeah.

It may be that if you elect a guy who's going to time it to the sun, you've got the wrong guy.

Yeah, I would say Major so different from Starmer.

Major could look down a camera lens and you felt he was actually a presenter in a way.

He was no good at speeches, but he could do a one on one very, very well.

The funny thing is that there was a journalist who started this thing that he tucks his shirt into his underpants.

And the journalist was Alistair Campbell of the Daily Mirror.

So Campbell was already on manoeuvres at that point.

Yeah, I think the word we're looking for is hapless.

But he was a prisoner of events.

We haven't even mentioned the whipless seven or whatever, who all resigned the whip over Europe and the fact that he had to call out his bastards and he had to resign as prime minister or resign as conservative leader.

Oh, my Lord, the chaos.

But in the end, he probably by...

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