biggest story for me with tony blair and the tony blair institute really is the money. the big problem for me is not necessarily tony blair. the big problem is that you have people like larry ellison, who's the co—founder of a massive company called oracle, having given the tony blair institute hundreds of millions of dollars, he's given 100 million. he's going to give another $200 million. and his big thing is health data, ai. and what was tony blair talking about this week? ai and data and the nhs. so i think it's important to separate the man from this idea of money and politics and people buying influence and pay to play in politics. we can talk about think tanks and we can talk about lobbyists. in british politics, there is nothing. there has never been anything like the tony blair institute when it comes to its scale. >> now, tony blair would say, my institute is a not for profit organisation. aaron. somehow he's making money. i think he's worth about £60 million. at least that's what he will say online. he's certainly the most wealthy former prime minister. shoul

and tony blair said it's reform. and tony blair said it's a seemingly dry subject.ony blair, it is not a dry subject. it is a dry subject. is it all you're bothered about is expanding your technocratic ambitions across the globe and filling your coffers at the expense of the british people? but if you are a person living in this country, actually planning reform is really important. >> really is , because it's what >> really is, because it's what the definition of green belt is, because they're going to build on green belt. and i heard the new local government minister, jim mcmahon, earlier talking about it won't be on the rolling hills of england. well, that's all right then . yeah. well hills all right then. yeah. well hills roll. they won't build on them. >> let's talk to former labour mp bill rammell, a friend of the show. morning, bill. you can probably sense our frustration and certainly my anger that tony blair has taken this week to burst onto the stage and to talk about what are effectively globalist vision for this country . we need to sort our own country

you said that you owe tony blair, the labour party owes tony blair a great debt.ce you were speaking at, speaking to me on the today programme on other occasions, has often said he wished he'd been more radical, more quickly in government. he'd realised the power he had with that big majority. have you learned from that? do you want to be more radical than people think you're being? well, we've been out of power for 14 years, and we shouldn't waste a moment. this is the chance to implement change and we're in a position now where we've got a good majority for the next few years. i do also have to say, though, this was an argument during the campaign as well as after it, having a big majority doesn't give you any more money. it doesn't magic up money, nor does it mean, as some of the right—wing newspapers were suggesting, that somehow there would be this change in the character of the labour party if it had a big majority, that somehow we'd all become things that we are not. that won't happen. but i do believe, you know, we are there to govern, we're there to do th

tony blair has poked his oar in once again, this time on immigration. we'll be asking, is he back for good? did he ever go away? and as keir starmer avoids the subject of labour losing out on the muslim vote in the general election, we'll discuss if this is a big issue for the . for the. party. and of course, we'll also go live to germany ahead of tomorrow night's epic euro semi—final clash against holland, and we're joined by brexit negotiator lord frost, who discussed the future of the conservative party. loads to get in touch about there. get in touch your usual ways on tonight's topics by going to gbnews.com/yoursay. but before all of that, it's your headlines with polly middlehurst . with polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you and good evening to you. well, within the last half an hour, sir keir starmer, the prime minister, has set out his message ahead of attending the 75th nato summit in washington, saying he remains committed to increasing defence spending to 2.5% of gdp and will do so following a defence review. he added labour's planning also

well, before the break, we were discussing tony blair's record on migration. what you had to say. robert said this. no. now, look, we'll stop taking foreign doctors and still take low skilled people. anthony adds this. if immigration was was a benefit, why is the economy in such a mess? peter as this we don't want migration, legal or illegal. we want expats where the employer pays salary, rent, health and travel. well, thanks for those opinions. welcome back to gbn tonight i'm martin daubney now. while labour mps may pat each other on the backs for their thumping majority in last thursday's general election, is there a storm brewing on the horizon? because, according to electoral data , according to electoral data, labour lost more than half a million votes in regions with the highest muslim populations of the uk. with the party's attack dog jonathan ashworth, even losing his leicester south seat over local backlash to the party's stance on gaza. well, prime minister keir starmer was asked yesterday if this growing trend is a concern for him and his party, and

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blair to our new prime tony blair to our new prime minister, sir keir starmer. i'm asking, is he right though? then will there be a reform youthquake? well, nigel farage seems to think so, stay tuned to find out exactly what he means by that. and it's come to light that the disastrous radio interview where he called himself a black woman was scripted with the president knowing exactly the questions he'd be asked . but is it time he'd be asked. but is it time for biden to just step . aside? for biden to just step. aside? but the show is nothing without you and your views, so let me know your thoughts on all the stories we were discussing today or anything you want to chat about. basically just visit gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation or message me on our socials. really easy @gbnews. but first, here's the news with ray addison and i'm on good behaviour so i'm not being naughty. ray, take it away. >> thanks, dawn. 3:01. let's get to our top stories. the prime minister is beginning a uk tour as he tries to reset the relationship between westminster and th

jonathan power there, tony blair's chief of staff. a political analyst and friend of keir starmer. thanks for being with us on "bbc news." you know him well. whatle he be doing tonight, do you think? >> working. he's already appointed his entire cabinet as far as i can see, as you were discussing and he'll be in the next round. ministers of state and he'll be at it right up until whatever it's time to knock off. he is a very driven guy and when he says he wants it to start on day one, he meant it. ben: does he get any timeoff, do you think? >> well -- this is intriguing. he does -- we know, he's preannounced it, actually and even when he was leader of the opposition, he did carve out time for his family. he carved out time actually for football so and he puts in the arsenal home games goo into his diary. they'll already have been in his diary. the arsenal home games have been announced for the next season. he'll be already thinking about how he's going to kind of marry his duties as prime minister to his deep desire to see the arsenal

blair stuff . it's you've tough. blair stuff.s you've got a crackdown on immigration using id cards and you've got to fix the things that people want to fix. but yes, i don't know how the ai is the answer really. but let's see. >> yeah, i mean , i guess >> yeah, i mean, i guess technology could save us, but i'd say robotics, you know, self—driving cars for example, would be something that could save, really save the sort of tight labour market, and you know, maybe reduce the need for, for bringing bodies into the country to do jobs. >> yeah, we'll have a robot each. >> we'll have a robot each. anyway, we've got the sun now , anyway, we've got the sun now, and the reform mps are planning to enter parliament in the style of reservoir dogs. i've always said that politics in the uk could be livened up with more gun battles. nick >> yeah me too. it's a nigel farage and reform mps plan . farage and reform mps plan. reservoir dog style show of force on first day of parliament. so the memes are going to be amazing and i'm not really sure

tonight, sir tony blair is back in the limelight, just in time for labour's accession to power .nd he in time for labour's accession to power. and he has all sorts of suggestions for sir keir starmer, including id cards, immigration controls and even talks of £50 billion in tax rises. is this just a taste of what is to come.7 reports have suggested migrants are gloating over the fact that they will no longer be sent to rwanda, while its government has declared that there will be no refund on the £270 million already spent. new health secretary met junior doctors today in an attempt to bnng doctors today in an attempt to bring to an end their frequent rounds of industrial inaction. but will their demands of a 35% pay but will their demands of a 35% pay rise get in the way of any progress? plus, from the ashes of disaster , grow the roses of of disaster, grow the roses of success today was the popular conservatism conference, in which we discussed the future of the tory party so is there a way back for the conservatives? find out in a moment. state of the nafion out in a moment. sta

you know, the tony blair institute is actually very successful at doing research.t's where this comes from. but that doesn't mean it's prescribing what will happen under under a labour government. and you know, we've been so clear that in terms of personal taxes, we're not going to raise income tax, vat and national insurance. we're not going to go back on that. and therefore, our path to success is predicated on economic growth. and that's where the housebuilding revolution, the new sovereign wealth fund, and also something else, tony blair was talking about today, the use of technology and artificial intelligence in government. you know, one of the very good research papers that blair announced this morning indicated that using ai announced this morning indicated that using al to grow productivity in the public sector could generate something like up to £34 billion a year. that's a huge sum of money that can be reinvested in public services. >> absolutely agree. and actually a lot of that i was keen on when we were in office. i wanted planning reform, and i was c

i mean, starmer was talking to blair and he was last yean talking to blair and he was last year, and it takes 13 years for a single onshore wind farm. >> apparently, it's like it's a couple of years to make. >> then it's five years planning and there's some other years in there. >> somehow you listen to the whole thing, the bureaucracy and everything and all the regulations. >> so they're gonna have to get rid of so many regulations to build anything at all. >> well, this is why i don't like it, because it's a it's one of these ideas where the people haven't thought to step two. it's just it sounds good. it feels good. that's just chuck out some solar panels, get britain moving. but what about nuclear would actually be completely green? provide energy for everybody. but for some reason, we can't even talk about that when all of the. you know. >> and nuclear also takes ages because michael gove was saying this thing about fish, you're not allowed to kill the fish. >> so there's all these like, ridiculous because you need for water nuclear. the water sucks in the fish into these vents.

starmer has brought back the drags, the sweepings of the blair and brown saloon, appointing them as lords and ladies and putting... them straight into the british cabinet when he already has 400 and something mps that he could have chosen from, he's bringing back the right hand men and women of tony blaire and gordon brown, it's going to be very, very rocky ride, and unless the british people can get their act together and try and stop this roller coaster, we may well... on our way to starmden. his first call, as you rightly implied, was to joe biden. i don't know if joe biden knows who he is, or knows that the telephone call even took place, but in that telephone call, we have the actuality, kier starmer pledged himself to potential war with america's enemies and america's service, exactly the same way as tony blair did with george w. bush in... the uh run up to the afghan, then the war against iraq. the second call that he made, warren, i don't know if you are aware of this. the second call kier starmer made was to benjamin netanyahu, and starmer's spokesman in writing said afterwards t

right now, and it's from the back of the usual blair, blair, blair. >> largely, i mean, he's the guyf opening the floodgate on on immigration in the first place. >> and now is warning against against it. but what he's saying is interesting because he's clearly saying that the public don't want it and recognising that, yeah, but at the same time, he cannot give a reason why anyone would feel that he doesn't show any empathy for why a large percentage of people in the country see this as a concern. so what? he'll keep repeating over and over again is the enormous benefits of immigration. i do think there's benefits of immigration, but can we also say there's some downsides? can we can we? >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. >> carrie khan i'm sorry. well, yeah. >> and i think some, some labour mps would now be recognising that some of the downsides i mean, jess phillips was was heckled by pro gaza. >> we've seen this islamist wave of mps and political pressure groups like muslim vote and they've they've made things really quite, quite nasty for, for people at jess phillips. >> well,

well, a majority almost as big as that one by tony blair. he has the for extraordinary amount of room for maneuver. so i think the real question is, how radical will cast um a debt to be what we've been following this. and i get the impression that he didn't want to offer anything radical. instead, he was trying to present politics as a serious business again to the british voters and may be as the, the anti boris johnson politics if you will. yes, very much. and that's what i think is, is a key reason why he did so well. although, interestingly, i mean, the truth is in actual voting terms of the propulsion of popular fiction that voted full length of policy. 34 percent is actually rather low. but none the less the, the i come in terms of the seats is one is to give you many numerous room for political maneuver. so i think in the 1st place, yes, he wants to present himself as the office. it's a bar, is johnson, a really serious man who's not going to frighten the the horses and get just you have very much in the center ground of politics, wh

well, a majority almost as big as that one by tony blair. he has for extraordinary amount of room for maneuver. so i think the real question is, how radical will cast um a debt to be what we've been following this. and i get the impression that he didn't want to offer anything radical. instead, he was trying to present politics as a serious business again to the british voters and may be as the, the anti boris johnson politics if you will. yes, very much. and that's what i think is, is a key reason why he did so well. although, interestingly, i mean, the truth is an actual voting terms of the propulsion of popular fiction that voted full length of policy. 34 percent is actually rather low. but none the less the, the i come in terms of the seats is one is to give you many numerous room for political maneuver. so i think in the 1st place, yes, he wants to present himself as the office. it's a bar, is johnson, a really serious man who's not going to frighten the the horses and get just you have very much in the center ground of politics, whitne

he likes what tony blair did in government. will he want to replicate tony blair?an that actually. when chris hope at david lammy, they're just coming out of town , 10 downing street, out of town, 10 downing street, he's smiling broadly. no wonder he's smiling broadly. no wonder he's just got the foreign secretary's job. chris hope asked a question that i actually put to chris said ask rachel reeves the question, how involved is tony blair in the campaign? and she openly admitted, oh, we speak to tony almost every day. and i think that was telling. she's about to be the chancellor of the exchequer. blair, i think, will be involved heavily behind the scenes . yes. and this is scenes. yes. and this is something that gb news viewers really, really get a little bit cross about. >> well, he has a staff of 500. he has a house near chequers. he still has his sort of red box briefings. this is a man who never stopped being prime minister in his own mind. and i think he'll be enjoying this moment because he has many ideas, some of them good ideas. you know, during the covid

why was i expelled by tony blair over the iraq war, when there were many other mps were also vehemently opposed to the iraq war as me, i like to think is because my opposition to the iraq war..." was more widely heard, was more persuasive, more eloquent, and absolutely irreconcilably opposed to those who were about to invade and occupy iraq, while others were ready, perhaps to temper their opposition, and i take a stand on things that the power - is particularly vitally concerned about, and so my opposition matters, i'm not someone. who's out campaigning on you, trans rights or hug a tree uh or uh or animal welfare or any of number of other things that can easily be accommodated by the power. i am campaigning on things that are of vital importance to the power, and if i'm opposing them well, what makes me a target, makes me, and you see the kind of useful idiots that we have, there are people who cannot see... the wood for the trees uh and unfortunately it will take some time uh to properly convert them uh to see the whole wood rather than have their nose up against one tree and unable

as you pointed out, the big vip list, including borisjohnson, tony blair, boris johnson, tony blair,n, tony blair, prime minister modi and the ceo of samsung. all of this really has made this a social media sensation and everyone has been following it over the weekend. the guest list is buried as well. tell us about these very vip and what it means for the family and their cloud? it vip and what it means for the family and their cloud?- family and their cloud? it 'ust shows you i family and their cloud? it 'ust shows you how i family and their cloud? itjust shows you how influential - family and their cloud? itjust l shows you how influential they. the kind of cloud they have been welding as they have become more of a global conglomerate and one of the analyst that i was speaking to analyst that i was speaking to a lot of these people are not coming herejust a lot of these people are not coming here just to a lot of these people are not coming herejust to have a lot of these people are not coming here just to have fun but essentially what their presence tells you is that the ambani i

that is ultimately going to spill over into to the battle of blair mountain. there's lots of right for miners. you know, they didn't know like if hatfield's death was was warranted had killed some people. there were also some rumors swirling. right. you know, hatfield had actually married mayor testament's wife two weeks after he was killed. right. some people said it was a promise to make or testament. but the felt's agents, the mine bosses, right. they it was that he killed testerman, right. so that he could eventually marry as marry his wife. so there's there's lots of these things. but for the miners, you know, they don't they don't care. right. for them, that's noise. right. sid hatfield, a martyr. right. so baldwin felt at this point had martyr, right? a figurehead, the of the movement. he was someone who who represented. right. the fight against the repressive and oppressive coal mining or coal camp system. also, the felt's mine guard system as well. and and in in a result right. you know, this is going to lead to a lot of vandalism, a lot of destructio

tony blair in on the mantle of office. tony blair “11995— on the mantle of office. he has won an extraordinary victory, _ higher than that moment? he has won an extraordinary victory, he _ higher than that moment? he has won an extraordinary victory, he has - higher than that moment? he has won an extraordinary victory, he has a - an extraordinary victory, he has a big majority. people are talking about turnout and independents beating labour over gaza, but the big picture story is he is never going to have as much immediate power as he has got today. and he's going to go in there today and find there are dozens of decisions waiting, small and large that he is going to have to make today, and he will have the family thing to deal with as well. i think he understands this. and don't forget that we interviewed gus o'donnell on the podcast he was the cabinet secretary when david cameron took over and he was making the point that keir starmer used to attend gus o'donnell�*s permanent secretaries meetings because he was director of public prosecutions, head of the crown

blair is the mention of blair.lair is back seemingly through the medium of alan milburn and jacqui smith's appointments. talk us through that, charlie. >> yes. so alan milburn, who was a former minister in the tony blair government, actually came back in in 2010 under the tories as sort of a social a social media adviser, as a social mobility. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> adviser. so he's a very, very keen on getting the nhs up and running again. it's talking about privatisation of the nhs. so using the private sector as well as what it currently has, and it comes on the back of wes streeting announcement when he first walked into the health department to say that the nhs is broken. so it's about bringing back people that are centrist centrists in terms of the labour party, people who are probably thinkers rather than in terms of practicalities rather than just left wing ideologues. yes. and it'll be a very interesting time in the department of health. >> blair has written this op ed for the sunday times, i

tony blair's in charge now.contenders in the tory leadership battle are starting to emerge. >> who's in the mix? our former business secretary kemi badenoch, the former immigration minister robert jenrick. he in fact quit the government over immigration. tom tugendhat, who was a defence minister, and the former home secretary, priti patel, and suella braverman. >> but can anyone save the party? well, joining us now is former conservative mp for yeovil, marcus fysh. good morning marcus. thank you so much for joining morning marcus. thank you so much forjoining us. a very much for joining us. a very sorry. good morning that you lost your seat last week. why did this happen. what's your assessment of what went so badly wrong for the tories ? wrong for the tories? >> well, just to say at the beginning , i >> well, just to say at the beginning, i think you're absolutely right to focus on, some, some of the things that labour are doing. we absolutely wish them. well, because we all have to try to, to, to make the nati

i'm hoping someone comes along soon to relieve me of. that burden, why was i expelled by tony blair over the iraq war, when there were many other mps were also as vehemently opposed to the iraq war as me, i like to think is because my opposition to the iraq war was more widely heard, was more persuasive, more eloquent and absolutely ensilably opposed to those who were about to invade and occupy iraq, while others were ready. perhaps to temper their opposition and i take a stand on things that the power uh um is particularly vitally concerned about and so my opposition matters. i'm not someone who's out campaigning on you know trans rights or hug a tree uh or or animal welfare or any of number of other things that can easily be accommodated by the. power: i am campaigning on things that are of vital importance to the power, and if i'm opposing them, well, well that makes me a target, makes me, and you see the kind of useful idiots that we have, there are people who cannot see the wood for the trees, and unfortunately it will take some time to properly convert them, to see the whole wood r

tony blair has poked his oar in once again, this time on immigration.e back for good? did he ever go away? and as keir starmer avoids the subject of labour losing out on the muslim vote in the general election, we'll discuss if this is a big issue

probably for tony blair. and lord hunt _ time ago. probably for tony blair.ath will| and lord hunt of kings heath will be a in the department of energy. and it's interesting, instead of — every department has a lord attached to it, but they are normally quite junior, whereas some of these are members of state debts ministers of state with more seniority. and there is some quite striking appointments because what sir keir starmer has done is he's given some of the newest mps, literallyjust done is he's given some of the newest mps, literally just elected last thursday, he's given them jobs. that's pretty incredible, i don't remember that happening before, so the striking ones, georgia gould, a parliamentary secretary of the cabinet office, and she has been the leader of camden council since 2017, herfather leader of camden council since 2017, her father worked leader of camden council since 2017, herfather worked for leader of camden council since 2017, her father worked for tony blair. she's a red princess — we sometimes talk about the red princes, sons of bi

diversity stuff is still due to labour changes made on the blair i think if you go on the blair instituteersity is strength and all that kind of thing. but i think what blair wants to do, and he said this in his times article, is sort of not be vulnerable on the kind of sillier aspects of the excessive aspects of wokeness, like the trans stuff. so i think that's what's happening here. they're rolling back, they're toning it down, no pun intended , because down, no pun intended, because of blair and. >> well, and the thing is, when people start shifting, you've sort of got to let them, haven't you? you can't be all like you said this a year ago, because we want people to change their minds. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and you don't want the david tennant types saying, well, i've doneit tennant types saying, well, i've done it to my own or i've allowed it to happen in my own family, and therefore i've said it publicly, i can't ever go back on it. yeah, unfortunately, we've got to. well, not unfortunately. i think we should be gracious about it. >> i mean, this is a ban on, i think, private doctors

one of them is opposition to the ideology of tony blair, the so-called new leibarism, with which he came in 1997. the basis then was the rejection of the class approach in favor of an orientation towards different isolated communities with previously marginal postmodernism. mcsweeney and his like-minded people refuse this, they retain the idea of ​​the so-called third way, but not in the interpretation of blair’s supporters, they are not attracted to the progressive alliance on which the liberists relied under blair, now its traditions are continued by justin trudeau in canada and emmanuel macron in france. labor is trying to return to a class approach, while at the same time they are decisively rejecting the radical left leaning that was present under the previous one. there is not much strength and energy left to fight against the good old enemy of russia, well, the conflict itself is entering another phase: elections are coming up in the united states. librist shadow foreign secretary david lemmy, his approach is progressive realism, he is of course very closely linked to nato and ame

so blair did it back in 97.ber my dad thinking to me, goodness me, these are more more right wing than major. and thatcher put together. this thought. that was in the first month. anyway, they delivered some. >> that's right. the new labour government in 97 kept the tory spending plans for 2 or 3 years longer than the first term. >> yeah, i certainly say so. they didn't change very much. but then. so but then you've got the actual liability factor of ed miliband, the tories did a jig ed miliband, the tories did a jig of delight when he became leader of the labour party back in 2010, and he should have done the job of an interim leader of the job of an interim leader of the party. he should have closed the party. he should have closed the gap on a coalition. so it wasn't even a strong government. it was a coalition. he failed to close that gap and he landed in with an even bigger defeat in 2015. so the man is a liability and he's showing it even more now because, as i understand it, we're going to be paying norwa

so blair did it back in 97.ber my dad thinking to me, goodness me, these are more more right wing than major. and thatcher put together. this thought. that was in the first month. anyway, they delivered some. >> that's right. the new labour government in 97 kept the tory spending plans for 2 or 3 years longer than the first term. >> yeah, i certainly say so. they didn't change very much. but then. so but then you've got the actual liability factor of ed miliband, the tories did a jig ed miliband, the tories did a jig of delight when he became leader of the labour party back in 2010, and he should have done the job of an interim leader of the job of an interim leader of the party. he should have closed the party. he should have closed the gap on a coalition. so it wasn't even a strong government. it was a coalition. he failed to close that gap and he landed in with an even bigger defeat in 2015. so the man is a liability and he's showing it even more now because, as i understand it, we're going to be paying norwa

and a lot of people with i experience from the tony blair and gordon brown years, tony blair has beenomic growth, but also talking about the need to fight against populism. about the need to fight against -o - ulism. ., , populism. one of the interesting challenaes populism. one of the interesting challenges that _ populism. one of the interesting challenges that labour _ populism. one of the interesting challenges that labour will - populism. one of the interesting challenges that labour will face i challenges that labour will face over its first term in power. we know the conservatives, we just heard in those clips, are going through a period of introspection and one of the interesting things about the result is reform, nigel faraj�*s party got 4 million votes —— nigel farage. they will use that as a launch pad to see more must be taken on legal and immigration —— legal and illegal immigration. and so tony blair says there has to be a plan to combat those challenges. in the men's european football championship, england have defeated switzerland on penalties, to reach the semifinals.

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and there is obviously a lot of people with experience from the blair—brown years. own work, and he's written in the sunday times today urging labour really to focus now on policy, on delivery, on al and tech and all that that can give in terms of sort of economic growth. but he's also talking about the need to fight against populism. so one of the interesting challenges that labour will face over its first term in power, we know that the conservatives, we just heard it in those clips that were played there are going through this period of introspection. one of the interesting things about the result is reform. nigel farage's reform party got 4 million votes. that is a lot of votes. it's a significant percentage of the votes that were cast last thursday, and they will use that as a launch pad to try and say that more action needs to be taken on both legal and illegal immigration. tony blair saying today that the labour party in power has to have a plan to combat those challenges. protesters in israel are demonstrating across the country — demanding the government re

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and fifth and final question should blair tony blair keep his nose out of british politics?otal agreement between the two of us. so much for a right versus left. >> tom, do you want to come back on one of those questions? >> the reason why i nearly stuttered on trump is because, yes, i mean, in terms of the current situation in the states, he's he's on course to win the election, okay. which isn't very hard against someone who's quite clearly, in my view, suffering from dementia, but do i want him to win? you know, do i think the british people want trump in the white house i would say probably the majority don't. so there's kind of what i would like to see and what will happen. i think . and what will happen. i think. >> do you want to come back on one? yeah. >> this is the one i hesitated on rather than was too verbose only. and that was proportional representation . so i don't representation. so i don't favour pure proportional representation. i don't think if you get, you know, 9.3% of the vote, you need to get exactly 9.3% of the seats. but i do worry our present electo

i remember you once on question time and it was it was the blair government.uropean integration. i remember you saying quite calmly, when are you going to stop lying? and i thought, yeah, i like this. this is really, really good. you didn't do a lot of question times, did you, >> i did one of the things i don't like doing is travelling all over the country to a question time audience somewhere in the far north, and it's just laziness, frankly. and then we sort of fell out. the bbc and i fell out. they've never spoken to me again. >> it's very easy to fall out with trevor kavanagh. thank you. and good luck with it all. thank you know, well done. well done. you jacob. i see you've had a big sit down with tom tugendhat. i have, i've had a really interesting conversation with tom. >> obviously we talk about the echr and his views on that , his echr and his views on that, his views on net zero. how he thinks he can unite the party and whether you take away the whip from some people who don't know what a man is and what a woman is, or assume there are a few on the t

cosplaying as blair either.e the idea of what it means to be left wing to me is to champion working class interests and post i'm expressing here. sorry, everyone at home post—brexit, when you've got the sort of populist spirit crushed, for years of sort of disenfranchisement, basically the idea of having any kind of working class consciousness or organisation is all but dissipated. >> it's fascinating that paradigm for me as well, has gone that left right. we've got ella here who sees herself as super left. you've got you who would probably see yourself as super right. >> and there are things she's not saying far so that we don't get insulted. >> you're not that. but there are so much that you both agree on. >> sure, i'm not sure . so >> sure, i'm not sure. so i agree on the democratic point that you were making about choosing from your cohort of mps. of course, it's not quite the most mps labour's had ever. blair, i think, had slightly more, but the point for me is interestingly different that when you watch th

i remember you once on question time and it was it was the blair government.uropean integration. i remember you saying quite calmly, when are you going to stop lying? and i thought, yeah, i like this. this is really, really good. you didn't do a lot of question times, did you, >> i did one of the things i don't like doing is travelling all over the country to a question time audience somewhere in the far north, and it's just laziness, frankly. and then we sort of fell out. the bbc and i fell out. they've never spoken to me again. >> it's very easy to fall out with trevor kavanagh. thank you. and good luck with it all. thank you know, well done. well done. you jacob. i see you've had a big sit down with tom tugendhat. i have, i've had a really interesting conversation with tom. >> obviously we talk about the echr and his views on that , his echr and his views on that, his views on net zero. how he thinks he can unite the party and whether you take away the whip from some people who don't know what a man is and what a woman is, or assume there are a few on the t

tony blair is advising problem.so thinks they should get far tougher on counter—terrorism . that might be counter—terrorism. that might be something which keir starmer takes him up on, but at the moment, labour's plan for immigration illegal immigration in particular is pretty thin and i think starmer knows that in the coming weeks we will have to hear a lot more detail on that. >> okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. >> right now the time is oh no, oh no, i was just going to say id cards. >> i had a few people talking about id cards, yeah. on election night. >> and the climate's different, isn't it ? isn't it? >> now, i sort of think it'd be quite a good idea. >> yeah. and i used to hate the idea, but i'm beginning to wonder if it's the only way now might be. i mean, for a start, just to vote, you had to have some form of id, so. yeah it's the way things are. >> things are a bit different now. what you think? >> 8:17. if you think we've got bad weather. what about hurricane beryl, which is now moving tow