Post by wapentake on Jul 7, 2024 8:49:48 GMT
Just my opinion but listening to him and his institute will alienate many from the start though as he has declared he wants to be like him I don’t expect much prospect of that.
Blair has been at it just a few days in according to the Sunday times briefing
Anyway look out for IDcards being brought in again,Lammy has been off to Berlin where they want to bring us closer to the eu.
Make your own minds up but I find any association with Blair as poisonous not that it stopped people in the Tory party like Cameron taking his advice and isn’t that part of the problem and why they failed?
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Blair has been at it just a few days in according to the Sunday times briefing
Anyway look out for IDcards being brought in again,Lammy has been off to Berlin where they want to bring us closer to the eu.
Make your own minds up but I find any association with Blair as poisonous not that it stopped people in the Tory party like Cameron taking his advice and isn’t that part of the problem and why they failed?
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Tony Blair has urged the new prime minister to come up with a plan for controlling immigration to turn the tide on populism, warning: “If we don’t have rules, we get prejudices.”
The former Labour leader, who led the party to its biggest victory, offers his advice to Sir Keir Starmer, including on the challenges he faces from Nigel Farage, in an article for The Sunday Times. Offering a three-pronged solution to the threat posed by Reform, which got 4.1 million votes in the election and won five seats, Blair says that the new government’s focus should be on illegal migration, law and order and avoiding “any vulnerability on wokeism”.
He likens Britain to other western countries such as France where “traditional political parties are suffering disruption” and “new entrants” are “running riot”. He says the trend is being driven by “cultural issues, as much if not more than economic, issues” and that Starmer needs a “plan to control immigration”. He calls for the introduction of digital ID cards, which he unsuccessfully tried to bring in when he was prime minister, saying: “We should move as the world is moving to digital ID. If not, new border controls will have to be highly effective.”
On Saturday night Lord Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, summed up the scale of Starmer’s challenge in a speech at the Cercle des Économistes, a French think tank. Speaking in Aix, he said: “Have no illusions, Britain is not immune to the political forces we are seeing in France — this is a Europe-wide phenomenon. A populist, nationalist movement is growing on the right in the UK too and how we all respond to this will shape politics for a generation.”
On Sunday Starmer used his first Downing Street press conference to declare Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme “dead and buried”. Launching a new border security command to tackle the small boats crisis is one of his six first steps for government. Yvette Cooper, the new home secretary, will begin the recruitment of a commander to lead it “in the coming days”. A Border Security Bill to be announced in the first King’s Speech, pencilled in for July 17, will include new counterterrorism powers to tackle organised crime and smuggling. Recruitment of specialist border investigators will begin “as soon as possible”.
In other developments:
● Starmer declared an end to Westminster sleaze at his first cabinet meeting, telling colleagues what he expected “in terms of standards, delivery and trust that the country has put in them”. ● On Sunday he will begin a whistlestop tour of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland where he will meet the first ministers and “establish a way of working across the United Kingdom that will be different and better to the way of working that we’ve had in recent years”. ● Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor who is leading a task force to advise Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, on how to unlock billions of pounds of private investment, will deliver his review on Tuesday. It is expected to conclude that more than £3 of private investment can be raised for every pound of public investment. ● Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, will remain the “strategic lead” on contentious workers’ rights reforms, but the policy will sit within the business department, administered by Reeves’s close ally Jonathan Reynolds. ● Starmer committed himself to the previous government’s £12 billion proposals to compensate the victims of the contaminated blood scandal. ● Alan Milburn, the former Labour health secretary, is to return to government to advise on the NHS. ● Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary and Strictly Come Dancing competitor, has been given a peerage and appointed as an education minister. Douglas Alexander, a former transport secretary who has returned as a Labour MP, has been made a business minister in Starmer’s latest round of appointments to his frontbench. ● David Lammy, the new foreign secretary, has made his first overseas trip to meet his counterpart in Berlin. Germany’s foreign office said: “We are working with the new UK government to see how the UK can move closer to the EU.”
In his Sunday Times article, Blair, whose Institute for Global Change will host a conference on the “Future of Britain” on Tuesday, also calls on Starmer to grasp the technology revolution.
He writes: “There are things that can be done to kickstart economic growth, in particular reforming the hopelessly slow and bureaucratic planning system, both infrastructure and housing, and fixing the worst aspects of the post-Brexit trade deal. But the only game-changer is the full embrace of the potential of technology, especially the new developments in artificial intelligence (AI).”
He says that the spread of AI by the private sector and its encouragement by government policy, together with education, is the “only answer to Britain’s productivity challenge and, over time, it can turbocharge growth”. He estimates that the savings made from AI will run into the “tens of billions” and will return growth to the levels not seen since the “early part of the century”.
• Camilla Long: Headmaster Starmer must now face a country flaming with anger
He concludes: “The Labour Party won, as it always does, by returning to the centre-left. But, contrary to the common critique, the centre ground is not the place of the mushy middle, between the poles of right and left. It is the place of solutions, not ideology; where the policy comes first and the politics second. It can be sensible and radical at the same time. And that is what the country needs.”
The former Labour leader, who led the party to its biggest victory, offers his advice to Sir Keir Starmer, including on the challenges he faces from Nigel Farage, in an article for The Sunday Times. Offering a three-pronged solution to the threat posed by Reform, which got 4.1 million votes in the election and won five seats, Blair says that the new government’s focus should be on illegal migration, law and order and avoiding “any vulnerability on wokeism”.
He likens Britain to other western countries such as France where “traditional political parties are suffering disruption” and “new entrants” are “running riot”. He says the trend is being driven by “cultural issues, as much if not more than economic, issues” and that Starmer needs a “plan to control immigration”. He calls for the introduction of digital ID cards, which he unsuccessfully tried to bring in when he was prime minister, saying: “We should move as the world is moving to digital ID. If not, new border controls will have to be highly effective.”
On Saturday night Lord Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, summed up the scale of Starmer’s challenge in a speech at the Cercle des Économistes, a French think tank. Speaking in Aix, he said: “Have no illusions, Britain is not immune to the political forces we are seeing in France — this is a Europe-wide phenomenon. A populist, nationalist movement is growing on the right in the UK too and how we all respond to this will shape politics for a generation.”
On Sunday Starmer used his first Downing Street press conference to declare Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme “dead and buried”. Launching a new border security command to tackle the small boats crisis is one of his six first steps for government. Yvette Cooper, the new home secretary, will begin the recruitment of a commander to lead it “in the coming days”. A Border Security Bill to be announced in the first King’s Speech, pencilled in for July 17, will include new counterterrorism powers to tackle organised crime and smuggling. Recruitment of specialist border investigators will begin “as soon as possible”.
In other developments:
● Starmer declared an end to Westminster sleaze at his first cabinet meeting, telling colleagues what he expected “in terms of standards, delivery and trust that the country has put in them”. ● On Sunday he will begin a whistlestop tour of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland where he will meet the first ministers and “establish a way of working across the United Kingdom that will be different and better to the way of working that we’ve had in recent years”. ● Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor who is leading a task force to advise Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, on how to unlock billions of pounds of private investment, will deliver his review on Tuesday. It is expected to conclude that more than £3 of private investment can be raised for every pound of public investment. ● Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, will remain the “strategic lead” on contentious workers’ rights reforms, but the policy will sit within the business department, administered by Reeves’s close ally Jonathan Reynolds. ● Starmer committed himself to the previous government’s £12 billion proposals to compensate the victims of the contaminated blood scandal. ● Alan Milburn, the former Labour health secretary, is to return to government to advise on the NHS. ● Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary and Strictly Come Dancing competitor, has been given a peerage and appointed as an education minister. Douglas Alexander, a former transport secretary who has returned as a Labour MP, has been made a business minister in Starmer’s latest round of appointments to his frontbench. ● David Lammy, the new foreign secretary, has made his first overseas trip to meet his counterpart in Berlin. Germany’s foreign office said: “We are working with the new UK government to see how the UK can move closer to the EU.”
In his Sunday Times article, Blair, whose Institute for Global Change will host a conference on the “Future of Britain” on Tuesday, also calls on Starmer to grasp the technology revolution.
He writes: “There are things that can be done to kickstart economic growth, in particular reforming the hopelessly slow and bureaucratic planning system, both infrastructure and housing, and fixing the worst aspects of the post-Brexit trade deal. But the only game-changer is the full embrace of the potential of technology, especially the new developments in artificial intelligence (AI).”
He says that the spread of AI by the private sector and its encouragement by government policy, together with education, is the “only answer to Britain’s productivity challenge and, over time, it can turbocharge growth”. He estimates that the savings made from AI will run into the “tens of billions” and will return growth to the levels not seen since the “early part of the century”.
• Camilla Long: Headmaster Starmer must now face a country flaming with anger
He concludes: “The Labour Party won, as it always does, by returning to the centre-left. But, contrary to the common critique, the centre ground is not the place of the mushy middle, between the poles of right and left. It is the place of solutions, not ideology; where the policy comes first and the politics second. It can be sensible and radical at the same time. And that is what the country needs.”
