Liam Byrne

Do you think it's actually wise to do NICs and labour rights and energy costs and business rates and not do anything about crime costs all at the same time?

Because I don't think it is, frankly.

So I think this is really important.

One of the things that struck me hardest when we ran the semantic analysis of popular speeches, it's the language of time.

They freight their speeches with time, again, past, once more.

Right, exactly.

And in a world where people are profoundly pessimistic about the future, it's got to mark it.

So half of reform voters think their wealth is going to decline in the future.

Now, populists don't give them an answer to that, apart from trying to take it off other people.

It's one of the reasons that Labour, or indeed the centre-right too, has got to reinvent some optimism, plausible optimism, about the future.

We should be the party that says, look, you can build the future with pride in the past, but you can't live in the past because, frankly…

That is not an answer to the problems that we've got today.

The world is not slowing down.

It's speeding up.

And if we want to be a winner in the future, then we need a story about plausible optimism for the future.

It's one of the big dividing lines that I think we can win on, actually.