Lewis Goodall

He intervenes quite a lot.

But this is certainly the most significant intervention he's made since Keir Starmer came to power.

And he is right that we are now facing down the barrel of our seventh prime minister in 10 years, which is an unserious prospect.

for a serious country.

And as the guy, easily the most successful prime minister that we have who's still alive, I think he can speak with some authority and sort of give his advice as to how we might address the situation.

Sadly, I think, for all sorts of reasons, this was an opportunity missed.

And I think that largely because of the way he chose to write this essay and the way in which he addressed it.

Look, I think that if his aim if his aim was to alter the course of the Labour Party, I think he would have singularly failed as a result of this.

Why?

Because he didn't write it to the Labour Party.

In fact, the way he wrote it was almost in spite of.

the Labour Party, almost designed to irritate the Labour Party.

There was a way he could have made these arguments in what I would argue is a true new Labour, Blairite, third way, Labour fashion.

He could have said, he references it in brief at the start of the essay, where he talks about the constitution which was passed for the Labour Party when he was leader in 1994, when he talks about redistributing power, ensuring that

Power and wealth.

The point of the Labour Party is to ensure that the power and wealth is shared by the many and not the few.

He doesn't mention that again.

Instead, what he chooses to do is basically say that we need to accept every bit of the so-called technological revolution, AI revolution, with all of the social pressures that might be unleashed from it.

He says we need to do all sorts of things in labour laws and so on because business wants it.

and unleashes a whole array of other policy proposals because otherwise we'll be relegated from the Premier League of Nations.