Tony Blair

I mean, the American system is different because it's a federal system.

And there's probably, in many ways, it's a good thing that there are limits to what the federal government can do in the US.

But if you take the UK or most governments where there's a lot of power at the centre...

I mean, what we've just been talking about, which is the technology revolution, how do you use it to transform healthcare, education, the way government functions?

How do you help educate the private sector as to how they can embrace AI in order to improve productivity?

I mean, this is a huge agenda for a government and a really exciting one.

I keep saying to people that were in politics today, because sometimes people get a bit depressed about being in politics because you get all this criticism.

People certainly in the West feel society is not changing fast enough and well enough.

I say, no, it's a really exciting time to be in politics because you've got this massive revolution that you've got to come to terms with.

Yeah, so we really don't do that with our governments because, by the way, one of the things governments should be able to do is experiment to a degree.

And part of the problem with systems is there's always a bias towards caution.

That's what I mean by saying the systems, if they're a conspiracy for anything, it's for inertia.

But there are some things that what we do, we concentrate with governments on what are true no matter what government you're in.

So I describe four P's of government when you get into power, right?

Number one, you've got to prioritize because if you try to do everything, you'll do nothing.

Number two, you've got to get

the right policy, what we were talking about before.

And that means going deep and getting the right answer.

And that means often bringing people in from the outside who can tell you what the right answer is, which has nothing to do with left, right.

It's usually to do with practicality.