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tony blair back in the picture. >> not especially, but the biggest story for me with tony blair and the tony blair institute really the money. so 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 m

tony blair and the new government. the first sign of what is to come under a starmer government comes from the tony blair institute's chiefmist, tom smith, who has claimed starmer will have to increase taxes by £50 billion by the end of this parliament. sir tony also warned the prime minister that he must get a grip on immigration in an attempt to quell support for conservative parties . he quell support for conservative parties. he suggested the introduction of id cards as a means of controlling the numbers, but this was quickly dismissed by the government's spokesman, the former prime minister has been very outspoken in recent weeks, providing pubuc in recent weeks, providing public advice to the newly elected pm. he recently took a firm position on the definition of a woman. he has also been emphasising the need for the uk to embrace artificial intelligence. blair was an extremely effective leader, charismatic , popular at his charismatic, popular at his height, he could practically walk on water. he radically transformed our constitution. whether it was devolution , bank whether it was devolution, bank of england inde

while attendees at the future of britain conference, organised by the tony blair institute for globalhey are very well placed as some of the best informed people in science, the arts and government to try and help answer that question. in a speech opening the event, former prime minister tony blair made it clear he believes ai is key to the uk's economic success. it will change everything, and positively, if we embrace it in a spirit of innovation, not introspection. and new health secretary wes streeting says that al can play a role in the nhs. doubling the number of ct and mri scanners, and notjust more scanners, but ai enabled scanners, those are massive productivity gains. as founder and ceo of pioneering ai company google deepmind, sir demis hassabis has been developing ai for health care, scientific research and consumer use long before it was fashionable. it will transform everything, so it will be at least as big as the industrial revolution, possibly, you know, bigger, more like the advent of electricity or even fire. what does he think the uk's new labour government should d

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tony blair. he's got, you know, his little tony blair institute with several hundred million dollars and little. s massive. yeah. it's the but changing the world. the tony blair won in europe for changing the world no less. >> so she's so she's like well you know what? i can i can make up a nice tweet. >> oh, maybe she's got a lot of time on her hands. enough time to do graphics. what do you think to that, look, beth says, michelle, i am i am in no way rich by any stretch of the imagination, but i want to say that i am terrified for the next few years, too. so listen, your challenge, everyone. i want you not just to tell me that you're terrified. i want you to tell me why. what particularly is it that you're seeing that you like or you don't like? one of my viewers on the website says, i really like the notion of stopping the hereditary peerages. absolutely, tommy. he's got in touch and said, michelle, i am on a zero hour contract, but it feels to me that i will now be on full time benefits. see, this is an interesting thing. we'll come on to the workers rights in just a couple of minutes, actual

over 350 staff at the tony blair institute, and he's obviously very active in politics. yeah. not like any other ordinary citizen, of course, but he's entitled to his view. and i think he actually comes out with some reasonably good takes on what some of the challenges are facing the country. >> yeah, probably one of our most famous socialists is tony blair. he believes in the redistribution of wealth. should it should he keep his nose out or should he be involved in politics at some level, do you think? >> i think he's entitled to put his opinions forward. but as you've just said, this is a colossal think tank. and when i was running the iea, we were asked morning, noon and night, who funds you? yeah, we are a ma and pa shop. we had a turnover of about £2 million a year. small business. this is an absolutely mammoth enterprise, a bit like a kind of former president of the united states might have. i'm wondering when we're going to get the sort of tony blair museum or whatever attached to it. so i'm not quite sure what angle he's coming from, but i'm going to credit his think

but i imagine there will be a lot of help from the tony blair institute, for instance.of policy ideas that these new cabinet ministers can take up and implement if theyif can take up and implement if they if they choose to . we'll they if they choose to. we'll see. but this is a man who's not shy of, you know , saying that he shy of, you know, saying that he likes tony blair. he likes what tony blair did in government. will he want to replicate tony blair? >> well, more than 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

so it coincided with a report from the tony blair institute that said that, you know, taxes might have approach. i mean, is it time, do you think that labour came clean about our taxes? >> i think for keir starmer and rachel reeves, it must be really irritating. tony blair coming in, he's now second intervention. firstly, he was talking about digital id cards to sort out the immigration crisis. now he's saying that labour's sums rachel reeves and keir starmer sums don't add up and they're going to have to find more taxes. i think what's also interesting is that during the course of the campaign, and this was a major attack line from the conservatives, was that labour hadn't owned up to potentially having to increase taxes to fill, to fill what is a sizeable black hole at 20 billion, at least in terms of cuts coming down the track in the next couple of years to unprotected departments. so tony blair now intervening and saying, you know, from the labour side, saying you're going to have to put up taxes, that is going that's going to sting, that's going to hurt. number 10, you know, tony

tony blair to give him his full moniker. speaking at something called the future of britain conference, it's being hosted by his tony blair instituteh is an extraordinarily successful billion pound industry. frankly, it's one of our viewers, said confidence trickster, nodding to his sponsors there. >> your response at home was one of exasperation. fury and confusion about why tony blair is on the stage today. in the first week of a labour administration, but basically taking the reins off sir keir starmer. >> it's a bad look, look, this conference will have been organised probably months in advance, but it's very bad time for sir keir starmer because we know that blair's a lot of his people have worked in starmer's private office when he was leader of the opposition, they provided lots of policy documents and on sunday, in the front page of the sunday times, blair was laying down the law to starmer on immigration, saying, you've got to sort immigration out, otherwise there'll be a problem with reform rich coming from him when he calls most of the immigration problems. this now will look like keir starmer is being told to what do. >

totally, tony blair is speaking today. he's tony blair institutenstitute. 800 people advised 40 countries about how best to run their governments. he is speaking today and has been speaking about his his how he thinks i can help boost productivity, but some of the language from his chief economist has been picked up. he forecast that taxes should have to rise by 1.9% of gdp to stabilise debt, pay for an ageing society and deal with declining revenues from the uk's oil and gas fields in the north sea to avoid austerity. so tony blair's team has laid bare the challenge facing this government . challenge facing this government. and that's why you're hearing so much from rachel reeves, the chancellor, and in fact, keir starmer at his cabinet at 930 this morning, he told those around the table that they have to boost growth. it's all about growth. is his fourth, his second cabinet meeting in four days. he's making very clear. i want you all to grow the economy. how will you do it? tell us. and that's why we saw yesterday ripping up the planning rulebook

obtained and several institutions jointly , so to speak, reaching these results is almost a historic victory. that means, even from the very significant results obtained by tony blair in 1997, the labor party will win the election , if this happens. there was a period when the liberal democratic party was able to gain a certain amount of power, which is now estimated to be able to return to power, and another party that was very interesting was able to regain power. in the united kingdom, the scottish national party won , which is in favor of the so-called exit of britain, the exit of scotland from the united kingdom. well, in the previous elections, they became the third party in the british parliament, which is a lot. it was a so-called surprise for many british political activists, but it seems that this process of power exchange between the conservative party and the labor party will continue. mr. dr. bagheri, i have two or three more questions for your excellency , please answer very briefly. you mentioned the issue of scotland. well, the issue of separatism in scotland has been faced by england for years also. the discussion of brexit and separation from the

. >> well, look, tony blair runs his own institute now, the institute for global change, which puts forward tank, we look forward to reading and considering those policy proposals . but on id cards to go proposals. but on id cards to go to your question, the home secretary was very clear over the weekend that that is not the policy of this government. we will not be having id cards, and that's the position. >> well, since you mentioned the home secretary, we've already heard that the rwanda scheme is scrapped and there'll be enormous pressure on the home office to tackle this huge problem with immigration. you'll be aware that in a huge number of the seats that you narrowly won, mps reform came in second. they'll be looking closely at what you're doing to tackle this problem. and the question is whether or not you've got the big idea to solve this. a border security bill sounds very similar to what was already in place. apart from the deterrent. >> well, look, we put forward our big ideas in the election, in our manifesto, and that's the bafis in our manifesto, and that's the basis on which

dealt with the climate change act from tony blair, we should have dealt with the equality act which embedded all these woke policies, dual corporations, institution we put our hand up, but please don't vote for keir starmer. things will get a lot worse. that that's we've got to say and what would your message the prime minister today be that the uk should immediately withdraw from european convention on human. yes, yes, yes but. but that's not enough. yeah, it's not enough. and we should learn the lesson. what happened when we left the european, but kept all the european laws on our statute books? yeah. the problem is, we got rid of the bureaucracy in brussels. we didn't get rid the bureaucracy in britain. so yeah, it had a lot of our problems lie at home. yeah. and they lie with fact that we've outsourced to unelected too much decision making and that is what we have to address. if you were still prime minister liz would there be any eu laws still the books in the uk the the the present administration has declined to remove vast numbers of them under your leadership. would you have completely put them the bonfire. well, yes. and i promise do tha

institutions are wider on the whole than individuals. therefore collective responsibility, as we have historically exercised, is the right way to behave. and starting with tony blairs of personal decisions that don't get is well considered across government, they are not as well consulted on and frankly, they don't bring people, the elected representatives of the party with them. and those elected representatives are elected by their own constituents and if they cannot be heard and they are likely to react. and we see bad policy they react. and we see bad policy they react. so i think those decisions will be contributing to the trials at their parties had in the last weeks and months. you at their parties had in the last weeks and months.— at their parties had in the last weeks and months. you have said, haven't you. _ weeks and months. you have said, haven't you, this _ weeks and months. you have said, haven't you, this is _ weeks and months. you have said, haven't you, this is the _ weeks and months. you have said, haven't you, this is the time - weeks and months. you have said, haven't you, this is the time for . haven't you, this is the time for plain speaking