Nothing is certain except death, taxes, English World Cup agony, and that whenever Labour picks a new leader, Tony Blair will loom into view behind them, clutching his pearls of wisdom.
For Keir Starmer, the legacy of New Labour and its way of thinking was not exactly an unambiguous help, as anyone caught up in the Mandelson calamity might tell you. And yet there are many useful lessons our newest ex-prime minister could have taken from Labour’s last spell in power. If Starmer learned all the wrong lessons from New Labour, Andy Burnham now needs to learn the right ones.
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