Neal Lawson
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349 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Neal Lawson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, people talk about wanting a grown-up back in, and for someone to make good managerial technical decisions.
To do that, you've got to have a vision.
You've got to know where you're going.
You've got to be able to judge your individual management decisions against some sort of future benchmark.
He was not interested in any of this stuff.
The only person who's responsible for Starmer's downfall is Starmer.
He wasn't interested in politics.
And then we get Morgan McSweeney coming out and saying, we never prepared for government.
Well, what did you think was going to happen if you never prepared for government?
I was lucky enough.
to be around Labour in the run-up to 97.
And Blair and Brown, whatever criticisms you might have of them now, were responsible for a deep political project of ideas, organisation, project management, etc.
They knew what they were doing.
And this lot didn't do any of their homework at all.
Yeah, look, I agree entirely.
There's a class of, you know, the liberal intelligentsia who are quite comfortable, who were appalled by Brexit, who were appalled by the kind of Tory chaos.
I mean, you know, quite rightly, but wanted to return back to that stuff.
And as you said, it's just a captain of the ship who could sail it through calm waters as if Brexit, you know, wasn't going to throw us, as if the crash in 2008 hadn't happened.
As if someone could just take us back to 1998 somehow.
And that's all this was about.
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