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Lewis Goodall

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The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

Your lives have to be transformed.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

However big tech firms want,

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

you wait for a mother of all backlashes and for populist forces to come along and go, no, they don't.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

Well, except that boosted inequality, just as AI revolution might well boost inequality profoundly.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

Look at what's going on with youth unemployment at the moment.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

But this is why I was saying that, just quickly, John, this is why I was saying that a Blair at his political peak, which would have been probably in the first five to seven years, I think would not have written...

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

this essay and if he had written this essay would have been precisely valuable he's forgetting why he was successful at his most successful at his most successful the reason that his politics had such purchase and such power albeit in a different political age is because he was seen to marry labour visions of social justice with a dynamic free market economy and in this he is shorn

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

of the first and only relies on the latter.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

And as a result, he does the thing which he always used to criticise his opponents for, which is to say that the important thing about politics is to maintain your values.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

And he doesn't speak about values at all in this essay.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

It is basically valueless to maintain your values, but your policies update over time.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

All he's doing is talking about policy and not about values.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

And that's just political death in the modern era.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

When was the last time he spoke to an ordinary voter?

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

That's what I was just saying.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

In which case, that's completely against what Blair was saying.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

Because if you were just listening to a Blair prospectus, you would just allow this to just happen.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

Well, there's a really important report out today which links back to the conversation to some extent that we've just had about some of the things Tony Blair was saying and about what the government can do to reinvigorate our economy.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

This specifically relates to young people and young people who are not in education, training or employment, so-called NEETs.

The News Agents
Has Blair just brought the Labour party together - against him?

And there is now a million young people in this situation, a new record.