Is Keir Starmer brilliant or just lucky?
The Labour leader’s advance owes more to Tory failure than to any success on his part.
ByTony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG, better known as Tony Blair, is a British politician. He was the prime minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007 and the leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 1997. During his leadership, Blair is known for rebranding the Labour Party as “New Labour”. He studied at Fettes College and then studied law at St John’s College at the University of Oxford. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on the former prime minister here.
How radical will Keir Starmer be on constitutional reform?
It remains to be seen how many of Gordon Brown’s 40 recommendations the party leader embraces.
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Labour’s left needs a serious strategy for the Starmer era
The new generation of left MPs need to stop trying to be the next Jeremy Corbyn and start trying to…
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How redistributive was New Labour?
Though inequality did not fall under Blair and Brown, child and pensioner poverty were dramatically reduced.
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Letter of the week: Making the grade
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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British diplomacy in the dock
A former diplomat’s new book reveals that, for 25 years, UK foreign policy has left mainly harm and disorder in…
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Why we need to scrap GCSEs
After decades of dithering, politicians must provide young people with the modern education they deserve.
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In defence of GCSEs and A-levels
Tony Blair was wrong – exams are the best form of assessment we’ve got.
By26 July 1999: Chiantishire may be the New Labour idyll of choice. But it has protection rackets, tax avoidance and…
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Does Tony Blair’s new centrist project have any answers?
At the former PM’s Future of Britain conference, it felt as if the past 15 years of British politics never…
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In defence of centrism
Far from being outmoded Thatcherites, most centrists are sophisticated and adaptable thinkers.
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Tony Blair’s technophilia is a dead end for the left
His deterministic embrace of technology leaves many voters out in the cold.
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Why British politics is broken
The traditional left-right era is over and neither the Conservatives, nor Labour, have changed enough.
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Out with the old: is neoliberalism really dying?
Despite our age of economic crisis, populism and pandemic, we may be living in the ruins of the neoliberal order…
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Tony Blair’s new centrist project shows he and his acolytes have learnt nothing
The former prime minister and his fellow liberals offer only the defunct slogans of a previous age.
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Keir Starmer has Tony Blair’s backing, now he needs some ideas
The party hasn’t yet given the public, as a shadow cabinet minister says, “a reason to vote for us”.
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Tony Blair is right: more people should go on to higher education
Rather than trying to limit the number who enter university, we should focus on making it more effective.
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Exclusive: Tony Blair wants to advise the next Labour government
The former prime minister hopes to return to British politics to “help on the policy side”.
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Keir Starmer remains the Tories’ useful idiot
The Labour leader’s attack on Stop the War shows he has learned nothing from the calamities of Blairism.
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Labour used to be the party of the people – how did it become so disconnected?
Keir Starmer must find a way to cross the troubling gulf between public and political opinion.
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