on May 21, 2022, 10:12 am, in reply to ""Wes Streeting should be the next Labour leader" - New Statesman"
"In politics, Streeting attracts admiration from those who see him as the moderate future of Labour, an effortless communicator — like Blair in the 1990s — who understands what it takes to win back the working-class voters who have deserted the party. “He doesn’t need a focus group to tell him what the public thinks because he feels it himself,” says Peter Mandelson, a co-architect of Blair’s New Labour.""
I think these 90s-style neoliberals really do still think they're as popular as Blair was - rather than just popular with a load of journalists who went to the same schools. Aaron Bastani described him as being like a regional supermarket manager, thought that was about right.
https://www.ft.com/content/9f846dcf-68f7-4b21-864d-070de48eaea7
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