Lewis Goodall

The public can like it or lump it, but this is what we're doing under all circumstances.

There is no coincidence that it's precisely when Blair's power started to diminish.

And Tony Blair, we're told, is not done.

He intends to intervene more in what he believes will be an upcoming Labour leadership contest.

But after yesterday's extraordinary essay, is anyone in the Labour Party still listening?

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It's Lewis.

The essay itself was interesting.

And I think that two things about it, just on the presentation of it.

One is, is that Blair did show yesterday that he, perhaps more than any other figure in British politics that I can think of, can still command the stage almost universally.

Yes, the papers are always willing to hear something which his former Labour prime minister has a go at current government.

Red on red.

You're pushing an open door there.

But it's also true to say that for a party that has really, as a matter of policy, deliberately decided not to think anything and not to argue with themselves or with anybody, pretty much for the six years of the Keir Starmer leadership, it was...

welcome, I think, and telling just how many people within the wider kind of Labour family decided to respond to it, decided to argue about it.

It felt to some extent as if someone had finally sort of let the pressure out of the

And so, you know, he and I think also this was an opportune moment for him.

I mean, he hasn't exactly been silent.